subtropical
geography, environment informal
extremely hot: 赤热的;炽热的;热得发红的
The weather was positively tropical last summer.去年夏天天气非常热。
Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.滥伐森林毁掉了大面积的热带雨林。
I dream of living on a tropical island.我梦想着生活在热带岛屿上。
In cool climates you have to grow tropical plants under glass.在气候凉爽的地带，必须把热带植物种在玻璃温室中。
The tropical butterfly's wings were shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow.热带蝴蝶的翅膀像彩虹一样闪烁着五彩缤纷的色彩。
The tropical sun beat down on them mercilessly.热带阳光无情地暴晒着他们。

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tropical | American Dictionary

tropical
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈtrɑp·ɪ·kəl/
of or characteristic of the tropics(= the hottest area of the earth):
a tropical climate
a tropical storm

Examples of tropical

tropical
Do dipterocarp seedlings really partition tropical rain forest gaps?
Seedling survival of tropical tree species: interactions of dispersal distance, light-gaps, and pathogens.
Effects of dispersers, gaps, and predators on dormancy and seedling emergence in a tropical herb.
Seedling dynamics of a tropical tree: impacts of herbivory and meristem damage.
However, even under these circumstances of acute nutrient loading, many tropical systems show a remarkable resistance to nutrient loss.
Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons.
The variability in throughfall volume in a wet tropical lowland forest is more influenced by canopy architecture and the lack of overstorey (gaps) than light.
Careful observation and description of tropical forest change provides the material from which specific hypotheses must be formulated and examined.
Approaches to developing sustainable extraction systems for tropical forest products.
Relative importance of photosynthetic traits and allocation patterns as correlates of seedling shade tolerance of 13 tropical trees.
The role of specialisation in nutrient-use efficiency as a mechanism driving species diversity in a tropical rain forest.
Germination and seedling growth of selected dry tropical forest species.
The study should help understand differences among species in the tropical dry forest environment.
Therefore, we can hypothesize that severe droughts induce leaf shedding and flushing in the tropical rain forest.
However, there have been few studies on the environmental triggers of leaf flushing in tropical rain-forest trees under normal conditions of high rainfall.
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