What is the meaning of tropical?

adjective

  • Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator. )
    • usage: "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
  • Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic.
    • usage: "tropical year"
  • Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
  • Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics.
    • usage: "tropical weather"
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