Tropical : Tropics
Tropical refers to the geographic area centered on the Earth's equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. This is approximately the area between 23.5 degrees north latitude and 23.5 degrees south latitude, and includes all the parts of the Earth where the sun reaches a point directly overhead (north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun never reaches directly overhead).Tropical also refers to plants and animals that are native to this region, and to other aspects of this region. The noun for this area is the tropics. Tropical is also used in a general sense of a place that is very warm year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation. However, there are places in the tropics that are anything but "tropical", even with alpine tundra and snow-capped peaks!
See also : tropical medicine[?]
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in detail, or, if the state of his health forbade the mental exertion
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sent over in advance some horses from his own stable, as he was very
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or to stir his emotions, for he found it difficult to get his mind
sometimes warned in advance, either by Dunningham or by the secretary
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half-an-hour, the automobile always remaining within call. As a rule he
biography, or what not, according to his mood.html">mood.
At dinner the conversation usually ran along the lines of what was being
news as were of an unexciting nature. The meal varied greatly in length.
and left us, taking somebody along to read to him until he was ready to
started, or if he was in a reminiscent mood and wanted to.
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