Subtropical vs. Tropical — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or being the geographic areas adjacent to the tropics.

Of, typical of, or peculiar to the tropics

Pertaining to the regions of the Earth further from the equator than the tropical regions.

Of or involving a trope; figurative.

Having some characteristics of a tropical cyclone but also some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone.

Of, occurring in, or characteristic of the tropics.

A subtropical plant.

Hot and humid; torrid.

Nearly tropical.

A tropical plant.

Of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics;

Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.

From or similar to a hot humid climate.

(dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.

(maths) Pertaining to tropical geometry.

A tropical plant.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator);

Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic;

Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;