Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated within the tropics; of or pertaining to the regions within the tropics: as, an intratropical climate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Within the tropics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Within the
tropics .
Etymologies
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intra- + tropical
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Examples
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After the formation of the storm, it of course has nothing to do with the vortex that produced it; it travels in the general direction of the local atmosphere of the place -- in intratropical latitudes westward, in extratropical latitudes eastward.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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Another tribe exists in the intratropical part of the Australian continent, to which, nearly 40 years ago, in the Banksian Herbarium, I gave the generic name of Tribulopis, and which may readily be distinguished by the following characters.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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