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

So any sailors would of course be boiled alive as soon as they got near to the Torrid Zone.

From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond

The temperature must be kept as warm there as in the Torrid Zone.

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

Some plants grow best in the Temperate Zones, while others live best in the Torrid Zone.

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

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.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

But how much hotter are Venus and Mercury than the Torrid Zone?

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward