TYPHOON (probably from the Arabic and Hindustani tufCat, a

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• TEMPEST, MARIE (1866– )

tempest, which is perhaps derived from

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• TYPHON (TYPHAON, TYPHOEUS)

Typhon, q.v.: the

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• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese t'ai Tung, strong

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• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind, is not used in application to typhoons)  , the name given to a heavy cyclonic storm in the seas fringing the eastern coast of Asia from Japan to the Philippine Islands . Typhoons generally occur in a series during the months of August, September and October, the season when the belt of equatorial calms in the Pacific Ocean reaches its most northerly extension .