- plural of tropic.
tropics
Example Sentences
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Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
This connection helps shape broad patterns of rainfall, temperature, and atmospheric circulation across the tropics.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Wetter and longer monsoons are giving them more time to reproduce in the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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