Usually means: Warm, humid, equatorial climate zone.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word tropical:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tropical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tropical: Merriam-Webster
  3. tropical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tropical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tropical: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tropical: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tropical, tropical: Wordnik
  8. tropical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tropical: Wiktionary
  10. tropical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tropical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tropical: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tropical: Dictionary.com
  14. tropical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tropical (disambiguation), Tropical (vehicles), Tropical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tropical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tropical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tropical: Rhymezone
  19. Tropical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tropical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tropical: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tropical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tropical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tropical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tropical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tropical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tropical: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  3. tropical: Natural History Terms
  4. Tropical: USGS Paleontology Glossary of Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tropical: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tropical: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tropically as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
▸ adjective:  From, or similar to, a hot, humid climate.
▸ adjective:  (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; figurative, metaphorical.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics) Pertaining to tropical geometry.
▸ noun:  A tropical plant.

Similar:
tropic, equatorial, figurative, hot, nonliteral, subtropical, semitropical, nontropical, intertropical, subtropic, more...

Opposite:
polar, arctic, frigid, temperate, cold

Types:
palm, rain, sun, beach, coconut, cane, banana, cocoa, more...

Phrases:
Tropical forest, Tropical medicine, Tropical climate, tropical diseases, tropical fish, more...

Adjectives:
sub, inter, more, humid, maritime, semi, dry, wet, warm, moist, less

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Similar:
tropic, equatorial, figurative, hot, nonliteral, subtropical, semitropical, nontropical, intertropical, subtropic, more...

Opposite:
polar, arctic, frigid, temperate, cold

Types:
palm, rain, sun, beach, coconut, cane, banana, cocoa, more...

Phrases:
Tropical forest, Tropical medicine, Tropical climate, tropical diseases, tropical fish, tropical cyclones, tropical rainforest, tropical fruits, tropical storm, tropical cyclone, tropical storms, more...

Adjectives:
sub, inter, more, humid, maritime, semi, dry, wet, warm, moist, less

Colors:
    turquoise,     coral,     mango,     teal,     aqua, more...



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