tropical : Idioms & Phrases

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Tropic month

  • . See Lunar month, under Month.
Webster 1913

Tropic year

  • the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
Webster 1913

tropical medicine

  • noun the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that are found most often in tropical regions
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tropical pitcher plant

  • noun any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes
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tropical prawn

  • noun edible tropical and warm-water prawn
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tropical rain forest

  • noun a rain forest in a tropical area
    selva.
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tropical sore

  • noun leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions
    oriental sore; Delhi boil; cutaneous leishmaniasis; Old World leishmaniasis; Aleppo boil.
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tropical sprue

  • noun a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
    sprue; psilosis.
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tropical year

  • noun the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
    astronomical year; equinoctial year; solar year.
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tropical zone

  • noun the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
    tropics; Torrid Zone.
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