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1. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
   "tropical fruit";
   - tropic
    
2. (rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
    
3. Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
   "tropical weather";
   - tropic
    
4. Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
   "tropical year"

See also: equatorial, figurative, hot, nonliteral

Encyclopedia: Tropical