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tropics

1. plural oftropic

the tropics pl (plural only)

1. (geography) The region of theEarth centred on theequator and lying between theTropic of Cancer and theTropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hotclimate.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page165:

     The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in thetropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.

   • 1899 February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […],→OCLC, part I,page201:

     ‘In thetropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’

• tropical zone
• torrid zone

• tropical

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