tropical | | |
adj. | 1. tropic, tropical | relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).; "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" |
| ~ equatorial | of or existing at or near the geographic equator.; "equatorial Africa" |
adj. (pertain) | 2. tropical | of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic.; "tropical year" |
adj. | 3. tropical | characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense. |
| ~ rhetoric | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking). |
| ~ figurative, nonliteral | (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech.; "figurative language" |
adj. | 4. tropic, tropical | of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics.; "tropical weather" |
| ~ hot | used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning.; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" |
tropic | | |
n. (location) | 1. tropic | either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics. |
| ~ line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel, latitude | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator. |
| ~ tropic of cancer | a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator. |
| ~ tropic of capricorn | a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator. |
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