Synonyms:
tropical, tropic
Meaning: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
Synonyms:
tropical
Meaning: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical year"
Usage examples
It's a tropical concern.
There is scarcely a sound in a tropical forest which is joyous and cheering.
No language suffices to describe the splendour of the males of some tropical species.
The idea of training tropical people for independence was thought to be idealistic and impracticable.
The first inarticulate roar was followed by a babel of voices, like a tropical cloudburst on a prefab hut.
APRICOTS.--The apricot is indigenous to the plains of Armenia, but is now cultivated in almost every climate, temperate or tropical.
In recent discussion of the control of the tropics, the too great contentedness of tropical peoples has been brought out prominently.
But something remained--the last thing that he could have expected--something towards which they were rapidly sailing over the tropical, sunlit sea.
It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropical afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked, That frequently happens in tropical climes, When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."