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Adjective

Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
From or similar to a hot humid climate, eg, tropical fruit, tropical weather.
Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Derived terms

tropical geometry

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
Moon.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
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Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
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A month mind.
(a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
month after death. --Strype.

Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or
Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.

Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon,
particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from
one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
s.

Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
s.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tropical \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
See Tropic, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as,
tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;
tropical diseases.
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2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact
original sense; being of the nature of a trope;
figurative; metaphorical. --Jer. Taylor.
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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. --South.
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Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month.

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.
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WordNet tropical
adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics
(the region on either side of the equator); "tropical
islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: tropic]
2: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical
year"
3: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes;
changed from its literal sense
4: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;
"tropical weather" [syn: tropic]

Moby Dictionary
aestival , blood-hot , blood-warm , calid , equatorial , genial , hot ,
luke , lukewarm , mild , room-temperature , subtropical , sultry ,
summery , sunny , sunshiny , temperate , tepid , thermal , thermic ,
toasty , torrid , tropic , unfrozen , warm , warm as toast , warmish