nontropical
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- adjective
- /nɒnˈtrɒpɪkəl/
- Most dengue infections occur in urban areas in tropical and subtropical regions, but imported cases have been reported in nontropical regions.
Examples
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Farmers in nontropical areas often grow crops that thrive in cooler climates, such as wheat and barley.
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These movements, involving peoples of three continents, went on for more than four centuries and existed in two separate circuits, namely, the tropical and nontropical circuits.
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"It seems to have had a remnant inner core that was somewhat tropical, embedded in a much larger nontropical structure," says Davis.
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Most or all nontropical broad-leaved evergreen forests are poorly represented in compilations of ecological data.
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In fact, rainfall variability is a problem in all semiarid regions, tropical and nontropical (though much less so in the humid tropics), and so are torrential downpours.
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Imported cases of diseases from travelers can occur in nontropical regions, highlighting the importance of global health awareness.
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The environmental conditions in nontropical regions can differ greatly from those found in the tropics, affecting local biodiversity.
Synonyms
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Weather or storms that happen away from the equator in cooler areas
How Tropical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nontropical breaks into non- meaning 'not' and tropical, which comes from tropics meaning the 'hot area near the equator'. So a nontropical storm is simply a storm that is not from the tropics and often forms in cooler regions away from the equator.