torrid : Idioms & Phrases
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Torrid zone
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noun the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
tropical zone; tropics.
WordNet
(Geog.) , that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.