adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tropical forest (= in tropical areas of the world )
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South East Asia’s topical rain forests
a tropical island
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What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?
a tropical storm
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The tropical storm smashed through the Bahamas.
exotic/tropical plants
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Exotic plants can be grown in a greenhouse.
geriatric/veterinary/tropical etc medicine (= medical study relating to specific groups or types of illness )
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Advances have been made in veterinary medicine, so that our pets are living longer, healthier lives.
tropical fish
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a tank full of tropical fish
tropical heat (= the warm, damp weather in the hottest parts of the world )
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He stepped off the plane into the tropical heat.
tropical (= very hot and wet )
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the tropical climate of Brazil
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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All these tropical areas have their own brackish flora and fauna, but few if any are known in the trade.
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A star fruit tree can reach 25 feet in tropical areas .
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This blood-sucking abomasal nematode may be responsible for extensive losses in sheep and cattle, especially in tropical areas .
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Only an overnight train journey, however, divides it from tropical areas and their exotic products.
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The bush is now grown in other tropical areas that have a sufficiently warm, wet climate.
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About 80 species grow in the tropical areas of the world.
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Fruit Bats are only able to live where fruit is available throughout the year, in tropical areas of the old world.
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The plant collection includes flowering plants now cultivated in gardens in many tropical areas of the world.
bird
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There are peripheral insertions, like borders of flowers, or tropical birds which populate the background landscapes of many religious paintings.
climate
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Health hazards arise since full protective clothing is unbearable in a tropical climate , even if the poor farmers could afford it.
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This is my first experience of a tropical climate and everything overwhelms.
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The raised, open dwellings made sense in this tropical climate .
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After living three years in a tropical climate , I had to get some cold-weather clothes, too.
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Does the Land Rover petrol engine have a reputation for inadequate cooling when operated in tropical climates ?
country
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And it's not just tropical countries that are affected.
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INBio provides a model that other tropical countries are already starting to follow.
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More effective surveillance should also be encouraged in tropical countries , both to monitor efficacy and to document adverse reactions.
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The loss of these drugs to resistance may represent the single most important threat to the health of people in tropical countries .
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It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North.
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It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management.
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The Jersey is certainly recognised in tropical countries as giving better results than other temperate breeds.
disease
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Increasingly high standards favour the larger wealthy companies that have little interest in tropical diseases .
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Or what if he gets a toothache or needs an appendectomy or is bringing some incurable tropical disease over here with him?
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But when there is no pressing military or colonial imperative, the developed world loses interest in tropical diseases .
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I had suggested some new tropical disease was a far more likely explanation.
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My father was engaged in research in tropical diseases , and he used to take me around his laboratory in Mill Hill.
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For others remaining or settling around the reservoir or flooded areas, tropical diseases often become prevalent.
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Maybe he was ill - delirious with some sort of tropical disease ?
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He also used to take me into the insect house, where he kept mosquitoes infected with tropical diseases .
fish
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All about tropical fish by Derek McInery Favourite species?
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To seaward, bright tropical fish dance in the coral reefs.
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The full set builds to an invaluable reference collection of the most popular tropical fish .
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I know that the Plec is a tropical fish but it is tolerant to the 26-27°C temperature of my tank.
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In particular, mangroves are the nurseries for huge numbers of tropical fish , which as adults live in the open sea.
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Coral reefs and tropical fish abound for those who like to snorkel.
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Quarantine Legally no quarantine period is needed for tropical fish .
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The last are suitable for small fish as they are, but earthworms and woodlice are too big for many tropical fish.
forest
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Millions of acres of tropical forest have been cleared in the pursuit of cheaper beef for hamburgers.
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The contrasts between temperate and tropical forests are striking.
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The birds inhabit tropical forests , savannah, and arid semi-desert conditions.
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The conference also agreed on a Statement of Forest Principles, aimed particularly at limiting the destruction of tropical forests.
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Nevertheless, the data reflect the magnitude of the impact of agriculture on tropical forest areas.
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Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests , undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides.
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Clearance for cultivation threatens the islands' tropical forests and brings with it road construction, settlement and damage to water supplies.
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The logging of timber is estimated to destroy or damage 12.5 million acres of tropical forests every year.
fruit
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Other tropical fruits such as mangoes and papaya could be next for the treatment.
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Garnish with tropical fruits and sauteed wild mushrooms, if desired.
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Zimmermann Graeff's Exotic Buck's Fizz is made with delicious tropical fruit juices including pineapple and passion fruit.
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This wine is fresh and fruity with ripe tropical fruit flavours.
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It can not get enough high-quality organic tropical fruit .
garden
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There is a lush tropical garden , swimming pool and a small private beach.
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Apparently, Roberto Sabortini could transform a desert into a lush tropical garden .
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Le Sport is surrounded by tropical gardens on a secluded bay of golden sand.
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Fifteen acres of rich, tropical gardens in the very heart of the city.
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St Mary's has a busy harbour, and Tresco has a beautiful tropical garden .
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The excellent three-star Nipa Lodge hotel is set in five acres of tropical gardens .
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It is set in spacious tropical gardens and offers a good choice of facilities.
hardwood
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A wooden disc box from Supplier Action: not a greenhouse gas producer and not made from tropical hardwood .
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It already is against the law to use tropical hardwoods in city projects.
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Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods .
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Pledge five: forests I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods .
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I he trade in tropical hardwoods has already peaked and stocks in some countries are rapidly running down.
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Before you buy furniture, make sure it isn't made from tropical hardwoods , unless from a sustainable source.
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Eighty percent of tropical hardwoods are made into furniture.
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He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
island
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This shot brings to mind one very important aspect of tropical island work.
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Fiona is haunted by strange premonitions when she goes to the tropical island of San Cristobal as a governess.
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Many tropical islands once had their own species, but most of these are now extinct.
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Holding their annual shindig on a tropical island , briefly converted into a deluxe version of Alcatraz, did the trick.
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I excavated and preserved in writing fragmented memories of the tropical island I had been taken from.
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Ramsay has likened the situation in many towns to that of a castaway on a tropical island .
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The world is filled with sad women who put a brave face on their unhappiness, even on a tropical island .
jungle
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Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.
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The general effect was of a tropical jungle , made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.
medicine
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He then went into research in tropical medicine .
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The substance of her treatise on the Black Death had been carefully checked with a microbiologist and a specialist in tropical medicine .
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Leo would be coming back to New York now to work in a hospital where he could specialize in tropical medicine .
paradise
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A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air.
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The view is of downtown Bethesda, not exactly a tropical paradise .
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The tropical paradise trip was a reward for 40 years' service with the Severn Trent water company.
plant
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The reception is an impressive design with a marble dome adjoined by tropical plants .
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On the other side is the mosaic-tiled bath, as blue as the sea, beneath a cascade of tropical plants .
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She didn't like thunder; it was over-dramatic and showy, like tropical plants .
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The tropical plants in the lobby, I notice, are fake as well.
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He had duly noted the abundant tropical plants in the foyer and the carpeted floor in the office corridor.
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We therefore say that temperate plants are long-day plants while tropical plants are short-day plants.
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Most tropical plants have no resistance to freezing and are killed by even slight frost.
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For that reason tropical plants usually put out flower buds and flower by slow growth one to three months later.
rain
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The tropical rain hardly dampened the mood of the waiting crowd.
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Most species live in tropical rain forests.
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The drive is spectacular: gorges and tropical rain forests and waterfalls on every hand, but I thought only of Poppy.
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For the environmentally minded contractor, several lumber companies in California are now marketing ethically chopped tropical rain forest timber.
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That becomes only too clear if you find yourself hungry in a tropical rain forest.
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A deluge of tropical rain fell on us an hour later.
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It is ideal for trees; and this, indeed, is the region of tropical rain forest.
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Up to half of the tropical rain forests cut down or burned are transformed not into wasteland but into secondary forest.
rainforest
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This will be discussed in section 7.4.3 and the current section will focus specifically on the tropical rainforest .
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To have the kind of tropical rainforest you want, you needed to have the right kind of jungle dirt.
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This is particularly true in areas of dense vegetation such as tropical rainforest .
rainforests
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There are nineteen more employed on running campaigns ranging from tropical rainforests to air pollution and London's roads.
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The large size and wide-ranging habit of the orangutan make it especially vulnerable to devastation in tropical rainforests .
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The tropical rainforests are the richest source of life on earth, the result of millions of years of evolution.
storm
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By the time we reached the airfield next morning a tropical storm was raging.
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Paige, released from her duties, stepped out of the house into the oppressive humidity of a looming tropical storm .
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A tropical storm moves in, flattening the sea.
sun
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When the land is exposed to the harsh tropical sun and torrential rain, it quickly becomes infertile.
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An overhead rack of hot metal halide lamps pumps out 15 hours of tropical sun per day.
timber
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The first-stage trees are largely used for pulp, while the second-stage ones are the bulk of the tropical timber industry.
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The organisation has set 2000 as the target for tropical timber producers to introduce sustainable policies.
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Early last year the North Hertfordshire branch of Friends of the Earth conducted a survey of importers of tropical timber .
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Conserving Matters Steps are at last being taken to create a formal structure for checking the sources of sustainably managed tropical timber .
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However, it agreed to postpone until 1994 the negotiation of a new agreement between tropical timber producers and consumers.
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In 1990, it imported over 900,000 cubic metres of tropical timber , and nearly eight million finished tropical timber products.
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He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
tree
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To gas the inhabitants of a tropical tree can reveal a thousand new kinds of beetle.
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In one of the several shows taking place each week, lights transform the awning into a canopy of tropical trees .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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tropical birds
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the tropical summer of Cuba
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the environmentally minded contractor, several lumber companies in California are now marketing ethically chopped tropical rain forest timber.
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In his shaving mirror he saw a face burned a deep brown by two weeks of fierce tropical sunshine.
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It is exclusively produced in tropical countries and mostly consumed in the industrialized North.
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Many other animals of the tropical forests have adapted themselves to some means of gliding.
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When the land is exposed to the harsh tropical sun and torrential rain, it quickly becomes infertile.