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tropic

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

tropic: Relating to the warm, equatorial regions between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, evoking heat, luxuriant growth, and a geography of intense sun and exotic abundance.

Detailed Definition
Tropic here means tropical or belonging to the tropics. In poetry it often helps create a hot, lush, exotic atmosphere, as in this line about a warm night.
Example
Example in poetry:
“When the ball was at its height, / On that still and tropic night” (Poe, “The Ballad of the Young Gentleman”); “the tropic bird” evokes heat and distant seas in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; “tropic sunlight” can function as compressed setting, suggesting lushness, glare, or colonial travel; contemporary eco-poetry may contrast a “tropic shore” with bleaching coral to complicate paradise imagery
Additional Notes
The adjective in the quoted line is a more specialized literary word than the everyday 'tropical'.; Found in the poem, The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God by J. Milton Hayes
Also Known As
equatorial tropical warm-climate sun-drenched
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