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Webster 1913 Edition
Turnus
‖
Tur′nus
,Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
Turnus
, the king of the Rutuli, mentioned in the Aeneid.] (Zool.)
A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of
Papilio glaucus
syn. Jasoniades glaucus
. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail
. See Illust. under Swallowtail
.