What is "semitropic"

Usage examples of "semitropic".

So much warmer had the climate grown that for some months to come at least the Folk could without doubt accustom themselves to the change from the hot and muggy atmosphere of the Abyss to the semitropic heat.

It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accus­tomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.

Under a semitropic sun the corridor doubled on itself, stones like polished incisors on both sides.

Up above in the center of its dome it had darkened to night, but the warm rich darkness of semitropic night, so lavishly scattered with stars they were like a blinding shower of permanently upflung confetti.