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

See also: equatorial, figurative, hot, nonliteral, trope, tropic, tropically

Encyclopedia: Tropical

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