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  2. Pineapple - Wikipedia

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    The pineapple [2] [3] ( Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. [4] The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been cultivated for many centuries.

  3. Buddha's hand - Wikipedia

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    Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, or the fingered citron, is a citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections, resembling those seen on representations of the Buddha. It is called Buddha's hand in many languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and French . The different cultivars and variations of ...

  4. Orange (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. The human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, produced by mixing yellow and red. In the RGB colour model, it is a tertiary ...

  5. Pomegranate - Wikipedia

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    [18] [19] The number of seeds in a pomegranate can vary from 200 to about 1,400. [20] Botanically, the edible fruit is a berry with seeds and pulp produced from the ovary of a single flower. [18] The fruit is intermediate in size between a lemon and a grapefruit, 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter with a rounded shape and thick ...

  6. Fruit (plant structure) - Wikipedia

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    Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In berries and drupes , the pericarp forms the edible tissue around the seeds. In other fruits such as citrus and stone fruits ( Prunus ) only some layers of the pericarp are eaten.

  7. BioShock - Wikipedia

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    BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms in August 2007; a PlayStation 3 port by Irrational, 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes was released in October 2008.

  8. Quince - Wikipedia

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    The fruit is 70 to 120 mm (3 to 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 60 to 90 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) across. A light pink quince flower The immature fruit is green with dense grey-white fine hair, most of which rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes colour to yellow with hard, strongly perfumed flesh.

  9. Block code - Wikipedia

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    The block code and its parameters. Error-correcting codes are used to reliably transmit digital data over unreliable communication channels subject to channel noise . When a sender wants to transmit a possibly very long data stream using a block code, the sender breaks the stream up into pieces of some fixed size.