Tropical vs Sea - What's the difference?
tropical | sea |
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
A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
(label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
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, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
A heavy wave.
(label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
As nouns the difference between tropical and sea
is that tropical is a tropical plant while sea is a large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans..As an adjective tropical
is of or {{l/en|pertaining}} to the {{l/en|tropics}}, the {{l/en|equatorial}} {{l/en|region}} between 23 {{l/en|degrees}} north and 23 degrees south.As an abbreviation SEA is
southeast Asia.tropical
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* (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.
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English
Noun
- A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
- With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
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