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The yearly turnus of precipitation in the alternating dry and humid tropics characterised by a marked dry and wet season, causes huge fluctuations in the water level: special characteristics of the mesoclimatic specifications in high mountain regions and local precipitations in the catchment area may cause an extreme rise of the river's water level within a short time.
Chapter 17 1993
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A specimen of _Papilio turnus_, di-morphic form, _Glaucus_, alighted near me; I marked its flight with scientific indifference.
Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899
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There is also in the Southern and Western States a dark female form of the yellow Papilio turnus, which in all probability obtains protection from its general resemblance to P. philenor.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Edwards, Mr. W.H., on dark forms of Papilio turnus, 248
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Ac denique Circulus Saturni k/, ubiSa - turnus in pundo k Terrae proximus
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686 1672
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Nonpotcftineo cffe. fuccusdiu - turnus, quod nimis celeriter eft maturitatem aflecutum.
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