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Cobra and tulips out of place in a fairly lush climate
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subtropical
Word definitions for subtropical in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; "even near the equator vegetation at 5000 ft is subtropical rather than tropical" [syn: subtropic , semitropical , semitropic ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to the regions of the Earth further from the equator than the tropical regions. n. A subtropical plant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from sub - + tropical .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subtropical \Sub*trop"ic*al\, a. Nearly tropical.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ subtropical climates EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Earlier developments by geographers which proceeded somewhat independently were located in arid, semi-arid and subtropical areas. ▪ It is distributed in the tropical, subtropical ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Term of Subtropical and Subtropics refer to: Subtropics Humid subtropical climate Subtropical ridge Subtropical High Subtropical cyclone Subtropical front Subtropical jet Subtropics (journal)
Usage examples of subtropical.
In the firmament high above them, quadrillions of chipmold spores formed a barely visible cirrostratus cloud made wavy by the steady nibbling of the subtropical jet stream.
Climate ranging from humid subtropical on the coast, to semiarid in some river valleys, to moist temperate and cool in the interior plateaus and mountains.
It typically happens over areas where a leg of the jet stream collides with subtropical air—the Great Lakes, the Gulf Stream off Hatteras, the southern Appalachians.
The building was a decent one, Spanish style, whitewashed walls, red tile roof, lush California plants crawling all over everything — purple bougainvillea, red and white hibiscus, great spiky clumps of aloes, some agaves, sago palms, all that subtropical whatnot.
But south of, say, San Antone, you knocked off a few hours from about noon to four in the afternoon, unless you felt like frying eggs on your skull with the help of that subtropical sun.
The trees were perennial, from some subtropical zone -- a sweet, sickly stench rose from them, mingling with the burnt-meat smell of a Goliath beetle that Piet had cornered and slaughtered noisily.
It becomes readily apparent that most of the drug Cannabis occurs in the northern subtropical and northern temperate zones of the world.