tropics

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of tropic

noun

  1. (geography) The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
    The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 165

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