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

Higher-level consumers feed on the next lower tropic levels, and so on, up to the organisms at the top of the food chain: the apex consumers.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Textiles were an explosion of bright yellow against sky blue, with tropic prints featuring thatched cottages against flourishing banana trees, which Meribe said was meant to celebrate a return to more normality.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

The water’s cool was a relief from the tropic heat, but Nailer was tiring from wading.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi