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3. A widely used term and also in Cl. Arabic, usually referring to a ‘semi­
permanent grazing area with a well and very low-lying grass called na*im
covering it ’. See Johnstone and Wilkinson, op cit., 1960. The low-lying grass
referred to is Dactyloctenium aegyptium.
4. H. E. Hurst, ‘A suggested statistical model for some time series which
occur in nature’, Nature, London, clxxx, 1957.

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