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adjective relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
adjective of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
adjective characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
originEtymology tree English tropic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English tropical From tropic + -al.
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