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tropic

adjective as in of or relating to the tropics

adjective as in very hot

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Example Sentences

Instead, rafts of atmospheric wind deliver fresh ozone from the tropics, where it naturally forms, to the poles.

At the same time, the Earth’s orbit around the sun was more oval, and seasonal variation in sunlight in the tropics was double what it is today.

Very little is known about what animals in the tropics were going through during the exchange.

An astronaut is unlikely to be infected with a disease from the tropics, for example.

People living in places such as northern Europe, Canada and the United States could learn a thing or two from countries in the tropics, says Kurt Shickman.

Mr Hock used to be an owner of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square.

In Tropic Thunder, he was a hopelessly deluded movie star in search of an Oscar.

He did a comic turn in Tropic Thunder and a quirky commercial for Jimmy Kimmel that aired during the Oscars.

"Tropic Thunder" was a modest hit ($159 million), but it cost a fortune to make ($100 million).

Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.

This specimen was obtained at Ascension, and is common in all parts of the Atlantic within or near the Tropic.

Through the tracery of the lattice came the warm breeze, bearing the narcotic scent of those tropic gardens.

That organ has only to exhale, in its degree, a fostering tropic air in order to produce complications almost beyond reckoning.

Scurlocks voice, rising out of the softly-lit tropic evening, died suddenly.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tropic, such as: equatorial, jungle, summer, wild, and tropical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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