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trop·ics

or Trop·ics (trŏp′ĭks)
pl.n.
The regions of the earth between the latitudes 23°27′ north and 23°27′ south: Hurricanes form in the tropics. Also called Torrid Zone.
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Noun 1. [画像:tropics - the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn]tropics - the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
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Translations
مِنْطَقَه إسْتِوائِيَّه
tropy
troperne
trópusok: a trópusok
hitabeltiî
trópy
tropikal/sıcak kuşak

tropic

(ˈtropik) noun
either of two imaginary circles running round the earth at about 23 degrees north (Tropic of Cancer) or south (Tropic of Capricorn) of the equator. keerkring مَدار، مِنْطَقَه واقِعَه بين المَدارَيْن тропик trópico obratník (Raka, Kozoroha) der Wendekreis vendekreds (ο) Τροπικός trópico pöörijoon مدار راس السرطان؛ مدار راس الجدی kääntöpiiri tropique חוּג הַגדִי/הַסַרטָן उष्णकटिबन्ध obratnica térítő tropik hvarfbaugur tropic 回帰線 회귀선 atogrąža trops garisan keerkring vendekrets zwrotnik د چنګاښ خط او د مرغومي خط trópico tropic тропик Рака; тропик Козерога obratník (Raka, Kozorožca) povratnik tropska zona vändkrets เขตร้อนของโลก dönence 回歸線 тропік خط سرطان اور خط جدي کا درمياني حصہ chí tuyến, nhiệt đới 回归线
ˈtropics noun plural
the hot regions between or (loosely) near these lines. The ship is heading for the tropics. tropiese streek مِنْطَقَه إسْتِوائِيَّه тропици trópicos tropy die Tropen(pl.) troperne τροπικές χώρες trópicos troopika بخش استوایی tropiikki tropiques הָאֵזוֹר הַטרוּפִּי उष्णकटिबंधीय tropi, tropski predjeli a trópusok kawasan tropis hitabeltið tropici 熱帯地方 열대지방 atogrąžos, tropikai tropi; tropu apgabals kawasan tropika tropen tropene tropik استوایی برخه trópicos tropice тропики trópy tropi tropski predeo tropikerna เขตร้อนของโลก tropikal/sıcak kuşak 熱帶地區 тропіки منطقۂ حارہ، گرم ممالک vùng nhiệt đới 热带地区
ˈtropical adjective
1. of the tropics. The climate there is tropical. tropies إسْتِوائي тропически tropical tropický tropisch tropisk τροπικός tropical troopiline استوایی؛ گرم و مرطوب trooppinen tropical טרופי उष्णकटिबन्ध tropski forró égövi, trópusi tropis hitabeltis- tropicale 熱帯の 열대(지장)의 atogrąžų, tropinis tropisks; tropu- tropika tropisch tropisk, trope- tropikalny استوایی، ګرم او مرطوب tropical tropical тропический tropický tropski tropski tropisk ที่เกี่ยวกับเขตร้อนของโลก dönencel, tropikal 熱帶的 тропічний منطقۂ حارہ سے متعلق nhiệt đới 热带的
2. growing etc in hot countries. tropical plants. tropies يَنمو في المَناطِق الإسْتِوائِيَّه тропичен tropical tropický Tropen-... tropisk τροπικός tropical troopika- حاره ای trooppinen tropical טרופי उष्णप्रदेशीय tropski trópusi tropis hitabeltis- tropicale 熱帯性の 열대성의 atogrąžų, tropinis tropisks; tropu- tumbuhan tropika tropisch trope-, tropisk tropikalny ګرم ، حاره ای tropical tropical тропический tropický tropski tropski tropisk ซึ่งเจริญเติบโตในเขตร้อน tropikal 熱帶(的) тропічний گرم ملکوں ميں اگنے والا cây ở vùng nhiệt đới 热带(的)
ˈtropically adverb
tropies إسْتِوائِيّا тропическо tropicalmente tropicky tropisch tropiskt τροπικά como en el trópico troopiliselt بطور حاره ای trooppisesti comme sous les tropiques טרופי उष्णता से, आलंकारिता से tropski tropikusan mengenai daerah tropis eins og í hitabeltinu (come ai tropici) 熱帯的に 혹서로 tropiškai tropiski; līdzīgi tropiem tropika tropisch tropisk tropikalnie ګرمسیر توګه tropicalmente ca la tropice тропически tropicky tropsko tropski tropiskt ในเขตร้อน sıcak ve rutubetli ülkelere özgü olarak 炎熱(地),熱情地 по-тропічному گرمي کے ساتھ nhiệt đới 炎热(地),热情地
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The deeper I got into the tropics, the deeper I found men drank, the deeper I drank myself.
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It saddens me and gladdens me, the gait with which we are leaving San Francisco behind and with which we are foaming down upon the tropics. Each day grows perceptibly warmer.
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As is usual in traveling in the tropics, a halt was made during the heated middle of the day.
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"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!
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Lower California, in length about seven hundred miles, forms a great peninsula, which crosses the tropics and terminates in the torrid zone.
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Nowhere had he found any sign that men had stopped even temporarily upon this shore, though, of course, he knew that so quickly does the rank vegetation of the tropics erase all but the most permanent of human monuments that he might be in error in his deductions.
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The tropical plants probably suffered much extinction; how much no one can say; perhaps formerly the tropics supported as many species as we see at the present day crowded together at the Cape of Good Hope, and in parts of temperate Australia.
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Here Saturn's grey chaos rolls over me, and I obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when wedged bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and in all the 25,000 miles of this world's circumference, not an inhabitable hand's breadth of land was visible.
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So difficult is it to judge from the aspect of a country, whether or not it is healthy, that if a person had been told to choose within the tropics a situation appearing favourable for health, very probably he would have named this coast.
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He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.
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Succeeding years, too wild for song, Then rolled like tropic storms along, Where, through the garish lights that fly Dying along the troubled sky, Lay bare, through vistas thunder-riven, The blackness of the general Heaven, That very blackness yet doth Ring Light on the lightning's silver wing.
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The 20th of July, the tropic of Capricorn was cut by 105d of longitude, and the 27th of the same month we crossed the Equator on the 110th meridian.
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