Metaphorical vs Tropical - What's the difference?
metaphorical | tropical |
Of or north and 23 degrees south.
From or similar to a hot climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
(dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a .
* South
As adjectives the difference between metaphorical and tropical
is that metaphorical is pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic while tropical is of or north and 23 degrees south.As a noun tropical is
a tropical plant.metaphorical
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tropical
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Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Jeremy Taylor)
- The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.