tropical

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the Tropics.
2. adj. Hot and humid; torrid.
3. n. A tropical plant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. In some radiolarians, as the Acanthonida, noting the position of certain spines which project in the region between the poles and the equator of the skeleton.
2. Of or pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; characteristic of the tropics or of the climate of the tropics.
3. In zoögeog., inhabiting the tropics; tropicopolitan.
4. Incident to the tropics: as, tropical diseases.
5. Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
2. adj. From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
3. adj. Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
4. n. A tropical plant.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics
2. adj. Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
2. adj. of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
3. adj. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
4. adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics