tropical
/ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/ adjectif B1En français : tropical
- 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. · We've had a lot of tropical nights this summer.· My favorite tropical fruits are pineapples and coconuts.
- Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; figurative, metaphorical.
- Pertaining to tropical geometry.
Dans la bibliothèque
May I ask, sir, if you are an authority on such complaints, which are, I understand, tropical or semi-tropical in their nature?"
"Yes, she is very jealous—jealous with all the strength of her fiery tropical love."
There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother.
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
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