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  2. Fishplate - Wikipedia

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    A fishplate joins two lengths of track. A fishplate, splice bar or joint bar is a metal connecting plate used to bolt the ends of two rails into a continuous track. The name is derived from fish, [1] a wooden reinforcement of a "built-up" ship's mast that helped round out its desired profile. [2] The top and bottom faces taper inwards along ...

  3. Fish plate - Wikipedia

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    A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC. Although invented in fifth-century BC Athens, most of the corpus of surviving painted fish plates originate in Southern Italy, where fourth-century BC Greek settlers, called " Italiotes," manufactured them.

  4. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

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    Plate (dishware) Typical Chinese plate or dish shape, with narrow lip. Jingdezhen ware, Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368. Silver-gilt plate, 1605, from the dinner service of Constance of Austria. Probably used as a charger to place other tableware on. A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. [1]

  5. Fish scale - Wikipedia

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    A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as well as possible hydrodynamic advantages. The term scale derives from the Old French escale, meaning a ...

  6. Placoderm - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms. Placodermata. Placoderms (from Greek πλάξ (plax, plakos) ' plate ' and δέρμα (derma) 'skin') [1] are vertebrate animals of the class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Paleozoic fossils during the Silurian and the Devonian periods. While their endoskeletons are mainly cartilaginous, their head and ...

  7. Osteichthyes - Wikipedia

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    Psarolepis. Achoania. Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish, including tetrapods) Osteichthyes (/ ˌɒstiːˈɪkθi.iːz /), also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.

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