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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Â© A Dictionary of Ecology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

torrid zone General climatic name for the region between the northern and southern tropics, broadly the equatorial zone.

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torrid zone General climatic term for the region between the northern and southern tropics, broadly the ‘equatorial’ zone.

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tor·rid zone (also Tor·rid Zone) • n. the hot central belt of the earth bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

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