Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the tropics.
- adjective Hot and humid; torrid.
- noun A tropical plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In some radiolarians, as the Acanthonida, noting the position of certain spines which project in the region between the poles and the equator of the skeleton.
- Of or pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; characteristic of the tropics or of the climate of the tropics.
- In zoögeog., inhabiting the tropics; tropicopolitan.
- Incident to the tropics: as, tropical diseases.
- Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics
- adjective Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
- adjective See Lunar month, under
Month . - adjective the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or
pertaining to thetropics , theequatorial region between 23degrees north and 23 degrees south. - adjective From or similar to a hot
humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather. - noun A tropical plant.
- adjective literature, rhetoric Of or relating to a
trope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
- adjective of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
- adjective relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
- adjective of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
Etymologies
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Examples
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By international agreement, the term tropical cyclone is used by most nations to describe hurricane-like storms that originated over tropical oceans.
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In the Indian Ocean, the Navy uses the term tropical cyclones to describe all large circular weather systems built around an area of low pressure.
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Because these were what we call tropical Holsteins, we tried to find and breed the species that could best resist heat and tropical conditions.
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Birds perch on a fence in tropical Punta Raza, Mexico to dry their wings.
Birds perch on a fence in tropical Punta Raza, Mexico to dry their wings. © Christina Stobbs, 2009 2009
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There's also a grit to it, and a special type of decay that only happens in tropical climates.
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There's also a grit to it, and a special type of decay that only happens in tropical climates.
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There's also a grit to it, and a special type of decay that only happens in tropical climates.
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He disregarded the fact that many of his troops had been weakened - and hundreds had died - of yellow fever in tropical Veracruz.
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There's also a grit to it, and a special type of decay that only happens in tropical climates.
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There's also a grit to it, and a special type of decay that only happens in tropical climates.
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