tropicalとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

tropic +‎ -al

発音

• (all senses except "characterized by tropes"):
  • (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/^[1]
  • 韻: -ɒpɪkəl
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑp.ɪ.kəl/
  • 韻: -ɑpɪkəl
• ("characterized by tropes"):
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊ.pɪ.kəl/, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɹɒpɪkəl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹoʊ.pɪ.kəl/^[1]
  • 韻: -əʊpɪkəl

形容詞

tropical (comparative more tropical, superlative most tropical)

1. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
2. From or similar to a hot humid climate

   tropical fruit

   tropical weather

   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 103:

     Whale sharks are found in all the tropical waters of the world. As with many tropical species, an occasional stray wanders into colder waters.

3. (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.
   • 1654, Jeremy Taylor, The Real Presence […]

     the first tropical expression

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

4. (mathematics) Pertaining to tropical geometry.

名詞

tropical (複数形 tropicals)

1. A tropical plant.
   • 1856, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste‎^[1], volume 12, page 275:

     The potato, as a mountain tropical plant, is capable of growing in cooler weather than any other tropical except the Nasturtian.

参照

Further reading

• “tropical” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “tropical” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tropical at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• pictoral, proictal