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# tropical

adjective (tropical)

«tropical» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tropical describes places near the equator, in the tropics, which are hot all year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#m1)
2. Tropical describes the things from such places: tropical fruit, tropical fish, a tropical storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#m2)
3. Tropical weather is hot and humid (damp). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and science, the tropics are the warm belt around the Earth's middle, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; tropical rainforests, coral reefs and tropical diseases are studied. «Tropical storm» and «tropical cyclone» (hurricane, typhoon) are powerful storms that form over warm seas. In everyday life: tropical fish in aquariums, tropical fruit like mangoes and pineapples. Phrases: tropical rainforest, tropical island, tropical fish, tropical storm, tropical climate.

### Examples

- Mangoes and pineapples are tropical fruits. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x1)
- We keep tropical fish in a heated tank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x2)
- Tropical rainforests are hot and wet all year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x3)
- Northern Australia has a tropical climate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x4)
- A tropical storm hit the coast of Florida. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x5)
- The tropical island had white sand and palm trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x6)
- Tropical places usually have a wet season and a dry season instead of four seasons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x7)
- Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x8)

### Note

Adjective only. From «the tropics». Opposites: polar; between them: temperate. Trap: «tropical» describes where something comes from or the hot climate, not just any warm day — though people joke «it's tropical today».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tropical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tropical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tropical.html) on Mova free.