tropics
tro piks
- n the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
- n 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
- Surgeon General Patterson blames the tropics: "Residence in the tropic regions at or near the sea level is unfavorable to the health of Northern races.
- It's a sorta habit, the tropics;It gets you worse than rum.
- If some of this heat were not transported away from the tropics, average equatorial temperatures would probably begin to rise dangerously.