Sentences with phrase «symbolic use of plant»

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As early as 1,000 CE, the yacon plant was used as a food source and herbal medicine as well as a symbolic offering during religious ceremonies by indigenous peoples of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes.

Furthermore, multiple game features point back at that key challenge of taking cover, making the whole experience coherent and consistent: Shields that let you plant a cover where needed, enemy to be used as meat shield, invulnerable rock worms to hide behind as they move which let you access a vantage point... All contribute in and deepen the concept of cover, lending a symbolic nature to gameplay that make it a focused learning experience.

Vivid colors and forms found in Yamamoto's paintings that were referred by Midori Matsui as uniting «decorative design and symbolic association by combining geometrical patterns with plant images» (Midori Matsui, «Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art» Bijutsu Shuppan - Sha Co., Ltd, p. 78) have been liberated from the rules of using wood that is found in daily life.