tropical

Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the tropics.

Hot and humid; torrid.

A tropical plant.

In some radiolarians, as the Acanthonida, noting the position of certain spines which project in the region between the poles and the equator of the skeleton.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; characteristic of the tropics or of the climate of the tropics.

In zoögeog., inhabiting the tropics; tropicopolitan.

Incident to the tropics: as, tropical diseases.

Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics

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