semitropical

Example Sentences

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They gathered in the chilly northeastern city of Dalian, in semitropical Guangzhou nearly 1,500 miles away and in Wuhan in central China, where the Covid pandemic began at the end of 2019.

From New York Times

Spaniards and other Europeans spent vacations or retired here to be near the sea, while locals harvested banana trees in the semitropical warmth of Spain’s Canary Islands.

From Seattle Times

Judging by the wisdom of the internet, where that house once stood is now a pretty duplex fronted by a thicket of semitropical plants.

From Los Angeles Times

Woodrats had long eked out an existence under a thin stretch of the lush canopies of Key Largo’s semitropical forests, where they shared their neighborhood with crocodiles, snakes and raptors.

From Scientific American

Earth’s climate changed from being tropical to semitropical worldwide to becoming divided into climate zones as it is today with frozen poles and tropical conditions at the equator.

From Reuters