tropical

adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics

(the region on either side of the equator); "tropical

islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: {tropic}]

2: (rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or

tropes; changed from its literal sense

3: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;

"tropical weather" [syn: {tropic}]