Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tropical
IPA transcription: [tɹ'ɑpɪkəl]
Pronunciations of tropical
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adverb meaning of the word
  • 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."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jurassic, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Tropical Depression Ten (2005), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hurricane Dog (1950), License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Earth, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Siesta, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fin whale, License CC BY-SA 4.0