tropical

[Trop·ic*al]

Our planet’s tropical regions, located just north and south of the equator, are known for being warm and humid. Some people think tropical areas make ideal vacation spots; others think they’re just good places for getting mosquito bites.

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Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

Adjective S.
of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"

Adjective S.
characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

Adjective S.
relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"

Adjective
of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical year"


n.
Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

n.
Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.


Tropical

Trop"ic*al , a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. . See Tropic, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases. 2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor.
The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.
Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic year, 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.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

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Usage Examples

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

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