of, in, like, the tropics
warm and humid
Cases of word usage
1) a long, curved, thick-skinned (yellow when ripe) tropical fruit (banana)
2) (a seed of) a tropical tree from which cocoa and chocolate are made (cacao)
3) (a kind of tropical plant with) a starchy root eaten as food (cassava)
4) a violent, tropical windstorm (cyclone)
5) (a tropical tree with) a hard dark-brown wood, used to make furniture (mahogany)
6) a kind of plant of which the tropical kinds have flowers of brilliant colours and fantastic shapes (orchid)
7) (a tropical plant with spiny leaves above) a large, sweet, juicy fruit (pineapple)
8) a substance made from the beans of a tropical plant, used for flavouring sweet things (vanilla)
9) (an edible white tuber of) a kind of tropical climbing plant (yam)
10) a kind of infectious tropical skin disease (yaws)