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TROPICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
Example:
tropical weather
Synonyms:
tropic; tropical
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Derivation:
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
Classified under:
Similar:
figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)
Domain category:
rhetoric (study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking))
Derivation:
trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
Example:
tropical fruit
Synonyms:
tropic; tropical
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
equatorial (of or existing at or near the geographic equator)
Derivation:
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
Example:
tropical year
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
Derivation:
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
Context examples:
A yellow to brown colored, thick, foul smelling, very toxic oil obtained from the seeds of a tropical plant, Croton Tiglium.
(Croton Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
A recombinant form of reptilase identical to or similar to the blood-coagulation factor X activator from the tropical snake Bothrops atrox.
(Batroxobin, NCI Thesaurus)
Tropical species have historically encountered much less disturbance than those in temperate zones, so respond to it more quickly.
(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)
A quassinoid phytochemical isolated from the tropical plant Cedronia granatensis with potential antineoplastic and chemopreventive activities.
(Isobrucein B, NCI Thesaurus)
F. ulcerans causes ulcers in humans located in tropical nations however, this bacteria's natural habitat is unknown.
(Fusobacterium ulcerans, NCI Thesaurus)
We have shaken off some of that horrible insect life which is the bane of tropical travel.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
C. violaceum is found ubiquitously in nature as a saprophyte in soil and water indigenous to tropical regions and is a rare pathogen in humans.
(Chromobacterium violaceum, NCI Thesaurus)
Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) is associated with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
(HTLV-1, NCI Thesaurus)
Late yaws is the tertiary, non-contagious stage of yaws, endemic tropical treponemal nonvenereal infection.
(Late Yaws, NCI Thesaurus)
In particular, around the equinox — the time when the Sun crosses Titan's equator — massive clouds can form in tropical regions and cause powerful methane storms.
(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)
