tropical

English

Alternative forms

• trop. (abbreviation)

Etymology

tropic +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• (all senses except "characterized by tropes"):
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/

  • Audio (US)

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  • Rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
• ("characterized by tropes"):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊ.pɪ.kəl/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹoʊ.pɪ.kəl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊpɪkəl

Adjective

tropical (comparative more tropical, superlative most tropical)

1. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
2. From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
3. (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.

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   • South

     The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

4. (mathematics) Pertaining to tropical geometry.

Translations

of or pertaining to the tropics

• Arabic: مَدَارِيّ‎‎ (madāriyy)
• Armenian: արևադարձային (arewadarjayin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱帶 (zh), 热带 (zh) (rèdài), 回歸線 (zh), 回归线 (zh) (huíguīxiàn)

• Czech: tropický (cs)
• Finnish: trooppinen (fi)
• French: tropical (fr)
• Galician: tropical (gl)
• German: tropisch (de)
• Greek: τροπικός (el) m (tropikós)
• Gujarati: ઉષ્ણકટિબંધીય (uṣṇakṭibandhīya)
• Hebrew: טְרוֹפִּי‎‎ m (tropi)
• Hungarian: trópusi (hu), tropikus
• Icelandic: hitabeltis-
• Italian: tropicale (it)

• Japanese: 熱帯 (ja) (ねったい, nettai), 回帰線 (かきせん, kaikisen)
• Korean: 열대 (ko) (yeoldae) (熱帶 (ko))
• Macedonian: тропски (trópski)
• Maori: pārūrū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tropisk

  Nynorsk: tropisk

• Polish: tropikalny (pl) m, zwrotnikowy (pl)
• Portuguese: tropical (pt)
• Romanian: tropical (ro)
• Russian: тропи́ческий (ru) (tropíčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: tropaigeach
• Spanish: tropical (es)
• Tagalog: alindanga

from or similar to a hot humid climate

• Arabic: مَدَارِيّ‎‎ (madāriyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱帶 (zh), 热带 (zh) (rèdài)

• Czech: tropický (cs)
• Finnish: trooppinen (fi)
• French: tropical (fr)
• German: tropisch (de)
• Greek: τροπικός (el) m (tropikós)
• Hungarian: trópusi (hu), tropikus
• Italian: tropicale (it)

• Japanese: 熱帯 (ja) (ねったい, nettai)
• Korean: 열대 (ko) (yeoldae) (熱帶 (ko))
• Macedonian: тропски (trópski)
• Maori: pārūrū
• Polish: tropikalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: tropical (pt)
• Romanian: tropical (ro)
• Russian: тропи́ческий (ru) (tropíčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: tropaigeach
• Spanish: tropical (es)

dated: metaphorical, figurative — see figurative

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} tropisch (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tropika

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} tropikus

Noun

tropical (plural tropicals)

1. A tropical plant.

Translations

tropical plant

Further reading

• tropical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tropical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• tropical at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pictoral

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Catalan

Adjective

tropical (masculine and feminine plural tropicals)

1. tropical

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.pi.kal/

• Audio

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Adjective

tropical (feminine singular tropicale, masculine plural tropicaux, feminine plural tropicales)

1. tropical (pertaining to the tropics)

Further reading

• “tropical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Adjective

tropical m, f (plural tropicais)

1. tropical

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Portuguese

Adjective

tropical m, f (plural tropicais, comparable)

1. tropical (of or pertaining to the tropics)
2. tropical (from or similar to a hod humid climate)

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Spanish

Etymology

From trópico +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾopiˈkal/, [t̪ɾopiˈkal]

Adjective

tropical (plural tropicales)

1. tropical

Further reading

• “tropical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.