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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Example Sentences

With the setting of the sun a thick mist arose--one of those humid tropical mists that are responsible for malaria and other zymotic diseases peculiar to the Torrid Zone.

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Sons of the South, unite In federated might, The Champions of your Country and your Queen; From New Zealand's glacier throne To the burning Torrid Zone, We'll prove that welded steel is tough and keen.

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This land is within the Torrid Zone, under the parallel which the Tropic of Cancer describes, where the Pole is 23� above the horizon, on the verge of the second climate.

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The Torrid Zone of the Earth is not free from moisture; it has its rains, for it has its upper colder atmosphere.

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It was in the Torrid Zone, where travelling by day is oft a very torture, especially over a plain such as that they were crossing.

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