tropical
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.
This word calls for a crash course in geography. If you stand at Earth’s equator at certain times of the year, you’ll see the Sun directly overhead. However, the Sun “wanders” a bit, and sometimes you have to move north or south to see the Sun right above you; latitude lines called tropics show just how far north and south you have to go. The region between each tropic and the equator is considered tropical. For more details, see your travel agent.
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relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)“tropical islands”“tropical fruit”synonyms: tropicequatorialof or existing at or near the geographic equator
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of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic“tropical year”
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of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
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characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sensesynonyms:
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