Definitions
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- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics
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Examples
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It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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A moment later she was inside the "guest-house," in a large room heated to semitropic temperatures by an enormous fire in the fireplace.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Apparently, semitropic heat conditions always have a certain effect on the breed's milk-production capacity.
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This level marshland, the barren, metallic mountains, and a sort of semitropic jungle, partly inundated by water, comprise nearly all the area of the Light Country.
The Fire People Ray Cummings 1922
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He doubted very much, in view of the semitropic character of some of the foliage, whether even in January the temperature would now go below freezing; but in any event he foresaw that there would be no fruits available, and he objected to a winter on flesh foods.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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