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Words with a similar base: tropical

'tropical'

[tropical.s.01] as in: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

Examples:
tropical islands
tropical fruit

'tropical'

[tropical.a.02] as in: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic

Examples:
tropical year

'tropical'

[tropical.s.02] as in: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

'tropical'

[tropical.s.03] as in: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics

Examples:
tropical weather

Origins

					tropical (English)
├── -al (English)
└── tropic (English)
    └── tropicus (Latin)
        └── τροπικός (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
            └── τροπή (Ancient Greek (to 1453))