The Collaborative International Dictionary
Torrid \Tor"rid\, a. [L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See Thirst.]
Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. ``Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil.''
--Milton.-
Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. ``Torrid heat.''
--Milton.Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.
Wiktionary
n. The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.
Wikipedia
Torrid Zone is a 1940 adventure film starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.
Usage examples of "torrid zone".
He might, without much impropriety, measure the extreme heat from the verge of the torrid zone.
The air was fresh, even to keenness, and any one suddenly wafted to the scene would little have imagined that he was under the torrid zone.
Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school.
He can't always be the one to pick the time and the place, particularly if the gambling man had managed to get himself stranded in a torrid zone without the price of the long ride back to civilisation.
Botany is an active science, and the discoveries of the torrid zone might enrich the herbal of Dioscorides with two thousand plants.
And a single torrid zone along the equator, within which no creature can live.