| ADJECTIVE | all | tropical, tropic | relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) |
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| pert | tropical | of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | |
| all | tropical | characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes | |
| all | tropical, tropic | of weather or climate |
| Sounds | traa'pihkahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator). | |
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| Synonym | tropic | |
| Broader | equatorial | Of or existing at or near the geographic equator |
| Spanish | tropical, trópico | |
| Catalan | tròpic, tropical | |
| Nouns | 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 |
| Meaning | Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic. | |
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| Example | "tropical year" | |
| Spanish | tropical | |
| Catalan | tropical | |
| Nouns | 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 |
| Meaning | Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense. | |
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| Category | rhetoric | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) |
| Broader | figurative, nonliteral | (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal |
| Spanish | tropical | |
| Catalan | tropical | |
| Nouns | trope | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Meaning | Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics. | |
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| Example | "tropical weather" | |
| Synonym | tropic | |
| Broader | hot | Used of physical heat / heat |
| Spanish | bochornoso, sofocante, tropical, trópico | |
| Catalan | sufocant, tròpic, tropical, xafogós | |
| Nouns | 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 |
| Adverbs | tropically | in a tropical manner |
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