Definition of Tropical

Tropical

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

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Tropical Quotations

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
Steven Tyler

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Gloria Swanson

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
Jared Diamond

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
Peter Agre

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
John Dyer

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Tony Hillerman

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
Henry Walter Bates

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
Ezra Stiles

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari

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Tropical Translations

tropical in Afrikaans is tropies
tropical in Dutch is tropisch
tropical in French is tropical
tropical in German is tropisch, tropisch, tropische
tropical in Spanish is tropical
tropical in Swedish is tropiska

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