TROPICAL

[adjective] [not gradable]Something that is tropical is from or relates to the area between the two tropics.Leprosy is one of the few tropical diseases which could be eradicated early in the 21st century.She's decided to specialise in tropical medicine (= the treatment of diseases from the tropical areas of the world).I'd love to live somewhere with a tropical climate.The organization has campaigned vigorously against imports of tropical hardwoods.Tropical forests contain around half of all the world's species of animals and plants.The Amazon river basin contains the world's largest tropical rainforest .The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm when its speed dropped to 70mph.(figurative) The weather was tropical (= extremely hot) last summer.See also subtropical.