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

These are some of them: Cocoanuts Chocolate Bananas Pepper Coffee Palm leaves Rubber Mahogany In return the Temperate Zone people send to the Torrid Zone inhabitants things that they do not have.

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

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 C. Raymond Beazley

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

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

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.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Agriculture stands at a low ebb; but the abundant rains and the rich soil produce very large harvests of rice, the principal crop, and all the productions of the Torrid Zone thrive.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute