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

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

It is divided into two unequal parts by the Tropic of Capricorn, and consequently belongs partly to the South Temperate, partly to the Torrid Zone.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Even if the meat were sent from New Zealand in midwinter it not only has a long trip in the Torrid Zone, but it gets to Europe in midsummer.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

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

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

This land is within the Torrid Zone, and beyond the equinoctial line on the south side, over which the Pole rises from the meridian 5�, beyond every climate.

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