Tropical
['trɒpɪk(ə)l] or ['trɑpɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; 'tropical weather' .
(adj.) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense .
(adj.) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); 'tropical islands'; 'tropical fruit' .
(adj.) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; 'tropical year' .
Typist: Sophie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Of the tropics.[2]. Figurative, metaphorical, not literal.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- Odd vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In this region, where the annual rainfall exceeds forty inches, and in some localities is almost tropical, the young student's atte ntion was early drawn to meteorology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is simply impossible to imagine Edison working out the phonograph, telephone, and incandescent lamp under the tropical climes he sought. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There would have been a perpetual campaign to Americanize Australia and New Zealand, and yet another claimant for a share in tropical Africa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was taken to Plymouth, and from Plymouth straight to the lonely tropical island of St. Helena. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At intervals the rain would pour down in streams, followed in not many minutes by a blazing, tropical summer's sun. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No moon was yet in the heavens, but the dark blue vault was bright with innumerable stars, large and mellow, like tropical constellations. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The country through which we passed, between these two towns, is tropical in climate and productions and rich in scenery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These specimens will prove conclusively that food sent from a tropical climate retains its freshness and delicate flavor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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