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tropical

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tropical in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
    "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
    tropical  tropic 
  2. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
    "tropical weather"
    tropical  tropic 
  3. of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
    "tropical year"
    tropical 
  4. characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
    tropical 
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