Subtropical

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being the geographic areas adjacent to the Tropics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to the regions of the Earth further from the equator than the tropical regions.
  • n. A subtropical plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Nearly tropical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a climate or other physical character between tropical and temperate; approaching the tropical or torrid zone in temperature: noting a region on the confines of either tropic, or its plants, animals, and other natural productions: as, subtropical America; a subtropical fauna or flora.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics
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