tropic

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The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Floods in Fiji caused by tropic cyclones have displaced thousands of people in recent years and wrought economic havoc.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022

Anterior pituitary hormones are sometimes referred to as tropic hormones, because they control the functioning of other organs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck