TROPICAL

tropical, tropic

(adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; “tropical weather”

tropical

(adjective) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

tropical, tropic

(adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); “tropical islands”; “tropical fruit”

tropical

(adjective) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; “tropical year”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

tropical (comparative more tropical, superlative most tropical)

Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.

From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.

(dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.

(maths) Pertaining to tropical geometry.

Noun

tropical (plural tropicals)

A tropical plant.

Anagrams

• pictoral

Source: Wiktionary

Trop"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. Tropic, n.]

1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

2. Etym: [From Trope.]

Definition: Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month.

– Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition