adjective. Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the tropics.

adjective. Hot and humid; torrid.

noun. A tropical plant.

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.

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.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees 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. Of or relating to a trope.

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

"By international agreement, the term tropical cyclone is used by most nations to describe hurricane-like storms that originated over tropical oceans."

tropical abscess  tropical botany  tropical diseases  tropical duckweed  tropical grape  

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