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1. (adj.) tropical
pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics.
2. tropical
very hot and humid.
3. tropical
used in or suitable for the tropics.
4. tropical
of the nature of a trope; metaphorical.
Etymology: (1520–30)
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| Definition of 'tropical' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) tropical, tropic
relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
"tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
2. (adj) tropical
of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
"tropical year"
3. (adj) tropical
characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
4. (adj) tropical, tropic
of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
"tropical weather"
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1. (adjective) tropical
relating to the hottest places in the world
a tropical island
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| Definition of 'tropical' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) tropical
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. (noun) tropical
rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical
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Sense: of the tropics
The climate there is tropical.
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 Afrikaans: tropies |
 Arabic: إسْتِوائي |
 Bulgarian: тропически |
 Brazilian: tropical |
 Czech: tropický |
 German: tropisch |
 Danish: tropisk |
 Greek: τροπικός |
 Spanish: tropical |
 Estonian: troopiline |
 Farsi: استوایی؛ گرم و مرطوب |
 Finnish: trooppinen |
 French: tropical |
 Hebrew: טְרוּפִּי |
 Hindi: उष्णकटिबन्ध |
 Croatian: tropski |
 Hungarian: forró égövi, trópusi |
 Indonesian: tropis |
 Icelandic: hitabeltis- |
 Italian: tropicale |
 Japanese: 熱帯の |
 Korean: 열대(지장)의 |
 Lithuanian: atogrąžų, tropinis |
 Latvian: tropisks; tropu- |
 Malay: tropika |
 Dutch: tropisch |
 Norwegian: tropisk, trope- |
 Polish: tropikalny |
 Persian: استوایی؛ گرم و مرطوب |
 Pashto: استوایی، ګرم او مرطوب |
 Portuguese: tropical |
 Romanian: tropical |
 Russian: тропический |
 Slovak: tropický |
 Slovenian: tropski |
 Serbian: tropski |
 Swedish: tropisk |
 Thai: ที่เกี่ยวกับเขตร้อนของโลก |
 Turkish: dönencel, tropikal |
 Taiwanese: 熱帶的 |
 Ukrainian: тропічний |
 Urdu: منطقۂ حارہ سے متعلق |
 Vietnamese: nhiệt đới |
 Chinese: 热带的 |
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