Torrid Zone

American  

noun

1. the part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

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Torrid Zone British  

noun

1. rare that part of the earth's surface lying between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

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Torrid Zone

Notice on the drawing that we live in a zone between the very cold region, or Frigid Zone, and the very warm region, or Torrid Zone.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil

He says, he has known a whole Boat’s Crew seized next Morning with bad Fevers by sleeping near the Mangroves, with which the Sides of the Rivers are frequently planted in the Torrid Zone.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

Observes, That the Order of the Seasons of the Year is quite inverted under the Torrid Zone.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

There are some cities in the Torrid Zone, but none of them are very large.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil

It was not an affair of greenhouses, like most of such places they had seen; for they were superfluous in the Torrid Zone, and all the plants grew in the open air.

From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Optic, Oliver