tropical

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
  2. Adjective.  From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
  3. Noun.  A tropical plant.
  4. Adjective.  (literature, rhetoric) Of or relating to a trope.

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