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    Look up cushion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, usually stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester...
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    whoopee cushion (also spelled whoopey cushion or whoopie cushion) is a practical joke device, which emulates the sound of flatulence. The whoopee cushion has...
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    (chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, one-cushion, balkline, three-cushion and artistic billiards. Carom billiards is popular in Europe...
    26 KB (2,998 words) - 21:49, 10 March 2024
  • Pincushion moss may refer to several different species of plants, including: Dicranoweisia crispula, the mountain pincushion Borya sphaerocephala Leptostomum...
    256 bytes (67 words) - 03:36, 23 May 2024
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    various other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull, or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure...
    70 KB (8,374 words) - 22:52, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Three-cushion billiards
    Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to carom the cue ball off both object...
    14 KB (1,612 words) - 01:58, 4 April 2024
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    The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is a class of air-cushioned landing craft (hovercraft) used by the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense...
    18 KB (1,909 words) - 22:50, 25 May 2024
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    An air-cushioned landing craft, also called an LCAC (landing craft, air cushioned), is a modern variation on the amphibious landing boat. The majority...
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  • Thumbnail for Endocardial cushions
    Endocardial cushions, or atrioventricular cushions, refer to a subset of cells in the development of the heart that play a vital role in the proper formation...
    4 KB (383 words) - 15:55, 26 February 2024
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    cushioning is used to protect items during shipment. Vibration and impact shock during shipment and loading/unloading are controlled by cushioning to...
    14 KB (1,548 words) - 21:12, 22 April 2024
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    cushion is a bag of fabric or plastic that can be inflated to provide cushioning. Unlike bubble wrap, inflatable air cushions have a check valve to allow...
    4 KB (399 words) - 11:09, 30 March 2022
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    Euphorbia epithymoides, the cushion spurge, syn. E. polychroma, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to Libya, Turkey and East...
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    arctic, or subarctic environments around the world. The term "cushion" is usually applied to woody plants that grow as spreading mats, are limited in height...
    9 KB (1,205 words) - 16:34, 26 March 2023
  • series features costumed cushion characters and is presented as comedy and drama for children. It aired on Nine from November 2000 to December 2001. Polly...
    5 KB (253 words) - 23:16, 16 February 2024
  • language phrase meaning "to fly". The shoes were initially embraced by ultramarathon runners due to their enhanced cushion and inherent stability; however...
    8 KB (648 words) - 17:09, 15 May 2024
  • small cushion used in sewing to store pins or needles. Pincushion or Pin Cushion may also refer to: "Pincushion" (song), by ZZ Top, 1994 Pin Cushion (film)...
    984 bytes (144 words) - 17:45, 24 September 2023
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    which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports...
    42 KB (5,039 words) - 22:22, 26 May 2024
  • household objects were brought to life through puppetry. The puppet characters included Humphrey Cushion (a sleepy grey cushion with a fondness for bananas)...
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    Lapeirousia oreogena, known in English as cushion cabong and in Afrikaans as perskussing, is a species of tuberous geophyte in the Iris family, Iridaceae...
    17 KB (1,839 words) - 04:16, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Icerya purchasi
    Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants, most notably on Citrus and...
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