tropical

About 12.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

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.

   We've had a lot of tropical nights this summer.

3. adjective Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; figurative, metaphorical.
4. adjective Pertaining to tropical geometry.
5. noun A tropical plant.

Similar words

tropic equatorial hot figurative nonliteral subtropical typhoon orbital alien rain

Often followed by

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Word family

tropically