Definition:Tropical
From New World Encyclopedia
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
- From or similar to a hot humid climate, eg, tropical fruit, tropical weather.
- (rhetoric) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Derived terms
- tropical geometry
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