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tropical
[ trop-i-kuhl troh-pi-kuhl ]
adjective
tropical flowers.
- very hot and humid:
a tropical climate.
- designed for use in the tropics or in very hot weather (often used in combination):
tropical-weight woolens.
- of or relating to either or both of the astronomical tropics.
noun
- tropicals, lightweight clothing, suitable for warm, especially summer weather.
tropical
/ ˈٰɒɪə /
adjective
- situated in, used in, characteristic of, or relating to the tropics
- (of weather) very hot, esp when humid
- rhetoric of or relating to a trope
Derived Forms
- ˈٰDZ辱, adverb
- ˌٰDZ辱ˈٲ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ٰDZi·i·ٲ noun
- ٰDZi·· adverb
- p·ٰDZi· adjective
- ԴDz·ٰDZi· adjective
- non·ٰDZi·· adverb
- ܲ·ٰDZi· adjective
- un·ٰDZi·· adverb
Example Sentences
And on Norfolk Island — a remote rock in the Pacific Ocean with about 2,000 residents and essentially no exports to the U.S. — a children’s book author memed a baffled-looking tropical wrasse fish.
Amateur wildlife photographers have been flocking to a north Belfast park to spot a tropical new arrival.
Also known as Celtic rainforest, the habitat harbours scarce plants, lichens and fungi, and is considered more threatened than tropical rainforest.
And so much more illness is on the rise, from Victorian-era diseases like tuberculosis to novel tropical diseases like “sloth fever.”
The three Ratliff siblings have scattered to Los Angeles and New York, far from the tropical maladies of Thailand and the third season of “The White Lotus.”
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