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  • The long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) is widespread on Tasmania, whereas the Tasmanian bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) is restricted to dry sclerophyll forest in eastern Tasmania, and the little pygmy possum (Cercartetus lepidus) prefers dry sclerophyll forest as well.

    Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

  • There are at least three species of rattlesnakes including the rock, twin-spotted, and ridgenose rattlesnakes (Crotlaus lepidus, C. pricei, C. willardi).

    Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests 2007

  • Apud me, mi anime, ut lepidus cum lepida accubet. locus hic apud nos, quamvis subito venias, semper liber est. ubi tu lepide voles esse tibi “mea rosa,” mihi dicito

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Quid me oportet facere, ubi tu talis vir falsum autumas? fui ego bellus, lepidus. bonus vir numquam, neque frugi bonae, neque ero umquam, ne erres: spem ponas me bonae frugi fore.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • With lepidus, illepidus, uenustus, inuenustus they are his usual terms of literary praise and dispraise.

    Introduction 1912

  • In the southern part of Isla de la Juventud we find the cabrero (Spindalis zena), murciélago mariposa (Natalus lepidus), paloma perdiz (Starnoenas cyanocephala), barbiquejo (Geotrygon chrysia) and jutía (Mysateles meridionalis).

    Cuban dry forests 2008

  • This ceremony ended, the Tribune passed into the banquet-hall, which conducted to a balcony, whence he was accustomed to address the people; and never, perhaps, was his wonderful mastery over the passions of an audience (ad persuadendum efficax dictator, quoque dulcis ac lepidus) (Petrarch of Rienzi.) more greatly needed or more eminently shown, than on that day; for the fury of the people was at its height, and it was long ere he succeeded in turning it aside.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Consequences of Herbivory on Prairie Lupine (Lupinus lepidus) in Early Primary Succession.

    NASA Earth Observatory 2010

  • Lupinus lepidus) colonizing primary successional volcanic surfaces, where the abundances of several specialist lepidopteran herbivores are inversely related to lupin density and are known to alter lupin colonization dynamics.

    Elites TV 2009

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