tropical zone

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As distance from Africa’s tropical zone increases, so too does the unpredictability of the rainfall.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The tropical zone, near the equator, has warm or hot temperatures all year.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways.

From Time Magazine Archive

He unbuttoned the shirt completely, as if the journey of three steps had taken him into an oddly tropical zone.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The tropical zone reaches from the 15th deg. on each side of the equator to the tropics in 23 lat.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.