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Meanings of tropic in English

Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics.

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Examples for "tropical"
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They tackle major infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases and other health challenges.
The South African
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However, consumers seeking to book a tropical-island adventure will have no problem.
Wired
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Animals living in tropical areas tend to leave fewer fossilised remains behind.
BBC
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This new mapping approach is scalable to any tropical country, said researchers.
The Guardian
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Background: Aedes albopictus is a major vector for several tropical infectious diseases.
Pubmed
Usage of tropic in English
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Jake said maybe so; maybe it was tropic neurasthenia the waiters got.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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The latitude diminished rapidly, from the parallel of Madeira to the tropic.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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The tropic night soon closed and darkness shut down with great rapidity.
The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic
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Above her tropic glare the satellite stars shone wanly and far away.
Through stained glass / A Novel
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The fierce glory of a tropic sunrise is ever a new delight.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Ellis, fatter, somehow absurd in tropic whites, met him at the entrance.
Terry / A Tale of the Hill People
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They were close to the tropic of Cancer, almost under its line.
The Boy Slaves
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Fancy a swim in a tropic paradise? Chris says in the video.
News.com.au
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My beautiful lore, like the tropic clime, hatches scorpions to sting me.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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Gannets, boobies, men of war and tropic birds, were constantly about us.
A Voyage to the South Sea / Undertaken by command of His Majesty...
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They visualize great spaces, and freedom, and tropic isles, and-well ,youknow.
'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'
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All aboard to Alligator Island with its tropic vegetarians and boat races!
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
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Oh, Helen, if I could watch these tropic stars with you to-night!
Spanish Doubloons
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They crossed the terrace in the hush of the tropic night.
Romance Island
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A tropic forest under a tropic moon is green as a sea cave.
The Blue Lagoon
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He was a veteran in the work of the tropic wilderness.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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