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tropical

About a hot part of the world, near the equator, between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south. I want to go somewhere tropical on my vacation.

tropical

(= tropic) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) tropical islands tropical fruit of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic tropical year (= tropic) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics tropical weather characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

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Simple sentences

We are in for tropical weather again.
What kinds of tropical drinks do you have?
This kind of plant grows only in the tropical regions.
That island has a tropical climate.
This is a tropical storm. It'll be over soon.
Tropical rainforests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide.
Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.
The white shark frequently attains, in the tropical seas, the length of more than 30 feet.
The Amazonian forest is the largest tropical forest on Earth.
Tom keeps tropical fish.
The rambutan is native to tropical regions of Southeast Asia.
Teak is a tropical dark wood used for making furniture.
Half of the world's species live in tropical rainforests.
The world's tropical rainforests are critical links in the ecological chain of life on the planet.
Tom sat staring at the tropical fish swimming around in the aquarium in his bedroom.
Tropical rainforests are located near the equator, where it's almost always warm and wet.
Toucans are tropical birds.
Tom lives on a tropical island.
This island is a tropical paradise.

Movie subtitles

For instance, in the moonlight on a tropical island they might make any woman fall in love with any man.
I thought tropical jungles were full of fruit.
A tropical night, murmuring palms, the sea crooning a lullaby, the cicadas yearning for their pale lover, the Moon and the night fragrant with cinnamon and coffee.
Have you heard him talk about tropical nights in Cairo?
Mrs. Holland had a tropical fever. very severe.
I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship, looking at the sea and the stars. standing on a tropical beach in the moonlight. with the palm trees sighing above us.
Then alone at night, under a canopy of tropical stars, with the soft strains of a Viennese waltz from the salon.
By tracing the rocks, I find they come from a ridge. washed down by the tropical rains.
Well, it's getting late. There'll be a chill in the air. These tropical nights are deceptive.
There's a tropical front with a thermodynamically warm cumulonimbus.
The blistering sun and the tropical downpours.
Just because we ask you to meet a sweet young thing. on a beautiful tropical night?
He was furious. By the time I could've been put in a tropical-island mood, I was out on the street.
Tomorrow you will leave for the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.
No, no. What he really needs is a long ocean voyage with plenty of tropical air and sun.
I've sailed the Bounty over 27,000 miles and you think you've come to an island paradise a tropical grog shop of feast and song and sleep.
I told him they were tropical.
We'd have had tropical anchovies every single day until the tub was gone and until this fine family's funeral.
Any more of those tropical anchovies?
Icy floods of the majestic glaciers fall into this tropical world.
I'll try to put it simply. Mrs. Holland had a tropical fever. very severe.
Have to keep it this way. Tropical creatures, you know.
Careful of that tropical sun.
These tropical nights are deceptive.
They were rare tropical fish like you.
Deadly tropical fever.
Miss Spencer said something about attending a lecture on tropical fish.
I'm going to Washington and sit at a big desk with a highball in one hand and a private secretary in the other and think of you poor guys moiling and toiling your life away in some tropical paradise.
Maybe it's a tropical uniform, like General MacArthur wears.
Sooner or later, an animal or an unfriendly native or a tropical disease will get me.
Of tropical birds and fierce animal life. the killer tiger. the cunning hyena. the deadly python that can crush a giant elk. the proud lion.
Who are these men, and what could they possibly be doing in this cruel, tropical wilderness?
A calm tropical night.
I use iris florentina and coreopsis, both tropical herbs.
Wild animals and tropical nights.
Mexico: Semi-tropical country situated between the north and central meridians.
The tropical weather was changing him extremely.
Then he lost another whole year after that to some strange tropical disease.

News and current affairs

Likewise, in many parts of the world, tropical rainforest is being cleared for pasture land and food crops.
The future of tropical marine ecosystems, and the millions of people whose lives are linked to them, depend on it.
Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity's front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.
At the same time, the methane-producing cattle population has risen to 1.4 billion, contributing to the increasing rate of destruction of tropical rainforests, which releases carbon dioxide and contributes to faster species extinction.
By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.
At current carbon prices, the value of carbon sequestration by tropical rainforests likely equals or exceeds the current level of international aid being provided to developing countries.
There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world's tropical forests.
There is good scientific reason to believe that many tropical regions will experience vastly more damage from global warming than will temperate-zone countries like the US.
Tropical countries that sign this convention will seriously damage the health of their peoples.
The tropical countries have several severe disadvantages.
Other tropical parasitic diseases imply similarly extraordinary burdens in Africa.
Other tropical diseases also can be controlled, and practical technologies for safe drinking water can dramatically reduce diarrheal diseases.
Tropical Costa Rica also ranks near the top of the happiness league.
It depends on warm temperatures, and thus is largely a tropical malady.
That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.
Scientists are still in the process of unraveling the biological mysteries that underlie the poor tropical productivity.

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