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Meanings of Torrid Zone in English

Portuguese
trópicos
Catalan
tropical
Spanish
zona intertropical

The part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate.

trópicos
Usage of Torrid Zone in English
1
Some plants grow best in the Temperate Zones, while others live best in the Torrid Zone.
Where We Live / A Home Geography
2
Some day the possibilities of the Torrid Zone may come to us as a great discovery.
The Call of the Twentieth Century, an Address to Young Men
3
A local night club named the Torrid Zone burned down before it had a chance to open.
The new yorker
4
The naked natives of the Torrid Zone are amphibious; they do not bathe, they live in the water.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
5
Situation.-PortoRico is situated in the Torrid Zone, in the easternmost part of the Antilles, between latitude 17 deg.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
6
This is the Torrid Zone.
Where We Live / A Home Geography
7
They were still in the Torrid Zone; and they saw the sun rise, though the days had become a trifle longer.
Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
8
The people living in the Torrid Zone send to us Temperate Zone people many useful things that do not grow here.
Where We Live / A Home Geography
9
Does it not savor something of Devildom, and a too great familiarity with that lower Torrid Zone, to entertain such a proposition cool-ly?
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm...
10
None of these plants can grow well in either the intense cold of the Frigid Zones or the great heat of the Torrid Zone.
Where We Live / A Home Geography
11
In any case, too, it must have a long summer trip; for one cannot go from New Zealand to Europe without crossing the Torrid Zone.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
12
The sidas and the melochias have singularly active properties in the torrid zone.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
13
These examples of earth-eating in the torrid zone appear very strange.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
14
Newmarket-heath, at no time of the year, is placed under the torrid zone.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
15
I felt a chill in the midst of the torrid zone.
The Book of Skulls
16
The torrid zone produces more passionate characters, a heated atmosphere stimulation.
Venus in Furs
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