About The Word Tropical
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Tropical
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What's The Definition Of Tropical?
[adj] of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"
[adj] (rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense [adj] relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tropical: equatorial | figurative | hot | nonliteral | tropic Related Terms | Find terms related to Tropical: See Also | Tropical In Webster's Dictionary \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
See {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. [From {Trope}.] 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.
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