What does tropics mean?
Tropics means plural of tropic.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
plural of tropic.
The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.
‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’
Use tropics when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tropics means plural of tropic.
Common synonyms include torrid zone, tropical zone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.
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