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

See also: equatorial, figurative, hot, nonliteral

Encyclopedia: Tropical