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torrid zone

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

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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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

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

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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

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

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

torrid zone see tropics .

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