torrid zone

English

Noun

torrid zone

The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
  They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.

Translations

Translations

Hungarian: forró övezet
Irish: teochrios m, trópaicí f pl
Romanian: zonă toridă (ro) f
Spanish: zona tórrida f
Tagalog: kaalingiingan

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