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# tropical

«tropical» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tropical describes places near the equator, in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (tropical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tropical describes places near the equator, in the tropics, which are hot all year. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#m2)

3) Tropical weather is hot and humid (damp). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x1)
- We keep tropical fish in a heated tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x2)
- Tropical rainforests are hot and wet all year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x3)
- Northern Australia has a tropical climate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x4)
- A tropical storm hit the coast of Florida. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/#x5)
- The tropical island had white sand and palm trees. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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».

### In the corpora

- [Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/10/)
- [A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and gets heavy rain almost every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/4/)
- [Tropical rainforests are hot and wet all year and lie near the equator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/15/)
- [Hurricanes form over warm tropical seas and get their energy from the warm water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/10/)
- [Bananas, cocoa and coffee grow only in warm tropical places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tropical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tropical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.