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Papuan

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Papua or its people or language.  "Papuan vowels"



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... forms of the variable species. Cases of this kind are the Ornithoptera Priamus, which is confined to the islands of Ceram and Amboyna, and is very constant in both sexes, while the allied species inhabiting New Guinea and the Papuan Islands is exceedingly variable; and in the island of Celebes is a species closely allied to the variable P. Severus, but which, being exceedingly constant, I have described as a distinct species under ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace


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