tropics
See also: Tropics
English
The tropics.
Noun
tropics pl (plural only)
- (geography) The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 165:
- The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
- ‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’
Synonyms
- tropical zone
- torrid zone
Related terms
Translations
region of the Earth
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