torrid zone

English

Noun

torrid zone

1. The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.

Translations

Translations

• Hungarian: forró övezet
• Irish: teochrios m, trópaicí f pl
• Romanian: zonă toridă (ro) f
• Spanish: zona tórrida f
• Tagalog: kaalingiingan