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Definition of Tropical
1. Adjective. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator). "Tropical fruit"
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic. "Tropical year"
3. Adjective. Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
4. Adjective. Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics. "Tropical weather"
Definition of Tropical
1. a. 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.
Definition of Tropical
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south. ¹
2. Adjective. From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather. ¹
3. Noun. A tropical plant. ¹
4. Adjective. (literature rhetoric) Of or relating to a trope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tropical
1. a tropical plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tropical
1. 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. "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." (South) 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.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes. Origin: Cf. L. Tropicus of turning, Gr. See Tropic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropical
Literary usage of Tropical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"A tropical cyclone—the cyclone of the Indian Seas, the hurricane of the West
Indies and South ... Distinction Between tropical and Extra-tropical Cyclones. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The order contains 132 genera with about 1100 species mainly tropical, ...
In eastern Asia the Palms, like other tropical families, extend along the coast ..."
3. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"4.4 tropical timber In 2000, Austrian imports accounted for over 5% of EU ...
In the late 1990s, Austria imported about 30 000 tonnes of tropical timber per ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"THE problem of tropical colonization is one of the most important and pressing with
... But there remains the great tropical belt, with its vast and rich ..."
5. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"All are more or less aware of the great climatic differences between temperate
and inter-tropical lands, but few have made any extensive study of other ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"A chronic disease of tropical and sub-tropical countries, characterized by enlarged
spleen, anaemia, irregularly remittent fever, associated with the ..."
7. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"Now it is true that these statements are quite at variance with those generally
believed concerning the flora of tropical climates; but coming from the ..."
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