1. tropic, tropical

relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

Example Sentences:
'tropical islands'
'tropical fruit'

• tropic

2. tropical

of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic

Example Sentences:
'tropical year'

3. tropical

characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

• figurative
• nonliteral

4. tropic, tropical

of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics

Example Sentences:
'tropical weather'

• tropic