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