virga


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light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity)

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Gust fronts, downdrafts from virga and microbursts are also essentially forms of thunderstorm outflow.
We see big things for the brand, especially the playful handbags that Virga has also recently ventured into.
The dolls originated in Bali, with Virga deciding to give back to the island's inhabitants, who were left without work as tourism was dwindling after the 2004 tsunami.
Virga, "Director reorientation and order reconstruction: competing mechanisms in a nematic cell," Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, vol.
Virga, G., Mastrosimone, S., Amici, G., Munaretto, G., Gastaldon, F., & Bonadonna, A.
The erudite revival of liturgical chant championed by the Monks of Solesmes is well known, but a revival of chant was also underway in German areas, in the Cecilian movement, when Schneider presented Hildegard's "O virga ac diadema" in 1857.
La sequenza Virgo, Mater Salvatoris, scritta per l'ottava dell'Epifania, subito dopo la celebrazione della nascita di Cristo e in vista dell'arrivo dei Magi, comincia con uno dei tipi piu antichi della Vergine che da alla luce il Salvatore, quello della "virga Iesse" o germoglio di Iesse: "E uscira un germoglio dalla radice di Iesse, e un fiore sorgera dalla sua radice" (Is 11,1).
Mathurin S, Chapelet A, Spanevello V, Sayago G, Balparda C, Virga E, et al.
Virga, "Persistence of human myiasis by Oestrus ovis L.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: agar; area; aria; attar; attire; aver; avert; gaiter; gear; girt; giver; grate; grave; GRAVITATE; great; grit; irate; raga; rage; riata; rata; rate; ratite; ravage; rave; regatta; rite; rive; rivet; tare; targe; target; tart; tater; tear; terai; tetra; tiara; tier; tiger; tire; titre; trait; treat; tret; triage; trig; trite; trivet; vair; variate; vert; virga; virgate.
In this context, the use of aquatic crustaceans has been reported as a reliable alternative for that purpose, especially because of their feeding habits (filter feeding) and benthic behavior, as described by VIRGA et al.
Wily punctum : called virga and often doubled thus the bivirga , two quavers united by a slur .