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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

  • A specimen of _Papilio turnus_, di-morphic form, _Glaucus_, alighted near me; I marked its flight with scientific indifference.

    Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899

  • 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

  • Edwards, Mr. W.H., on dark forms of Papilio turnus, 248

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • 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

  • Nonpotcftineo cffe. fuccusdiu - turnus, quod nimis celeriter eft maturitatem aflecutum.

    Iani Iacobi Boissardi vesvntini Emblematum liber 1593

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