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torrid zone

noun

torrid zone

noun
1

Geography, Natural sciences The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.

  • They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

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