the tropics

plural noun

: the part of the world that is near the equator where the weather is very warm

Examples of the tropics in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The weather pattern usually triggers more dangerous fires in the tropics, less so in the United States because of more rain, experts said. — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Most of the world’s peatlands are concentrated at higher latitudes closer to the poles or in the tropics. — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026

The 1859 Carrington Event, the strongest geomagnetic storm on record, disrupted telegraph systems around the world and pushed auroras from their usual high-latitude skies near the Arctic and Antarctic to locations as far south as the tropics. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 July 2026

García and his colleagues reviewed four specific predation events observed at multiple locations across the tropics by species in the family Cranaidae of the order Opiliones. — Jay Kakade july 13, New Atlas, 14 July 2026

Rhymes for the tropics

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