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Tropic   /trˈɑpɪk/   Listen
Tropic

noun
1.
Either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics.
adjective
1.
Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).  Synonym: tropical.  "Tropical fruit"
2.
Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics.  Synonym: tropical.



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"Tropic" Quotes from Famous Books



... be alert to keep up with Jack Meredith—to understand his speech; and he rather liked the necessity, which was a change after the tropic indolence in ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... the—thing—these lights held firm and steady. They were seven—like seven little moons. One was of a pearly pink, one of a delicate nacreous blue, one of lambent saffron, one of the emerald you see in the shallow waters of tropic isles; a deathly white; a ghostly amethyst; and one of the silver that is seen only when the flying ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... see how low man can fall, you must go to the tropic jungle, where geniality of climate, plenty and variety of food, are in themselves a cause of degradation to the soul, as long as the Spirit of Christ is absent from it. Not in the barren desert, but in the rich forest, wanders the true savage, eating and eating all day long, like the ...
— Town and Country Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... early part of his reign, attempted the reduction of Ethiopia and Arabia Felix. They marched near a thousand miles to the south of the tropic; but the heat of the climate soon repelled the invaders, and protected the un-warlike natives of those sequestered regions. [2] The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labor of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... orator having drawn for the letters, the urns are prepared accordingly by one of the commissioners and the two censors. The preparation of the urns is After this manner. If the Senate be to elect, for example, the list called the tropic of ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington


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