Tropical

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
	2.	Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. - South. Tropic month See Lunar month, under Month. Tropic year the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

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

aestival, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid, equatorial, genial, hot, luke, lukewarm, mild, room-temperature, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, torrid, tropic, unfrozen, warm, warm as toast, warmish