semitropical
IPA: sɛmitrˈɑpɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Intermediate between temperate and tropical.
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Examples of "semitropical" in Sentences
- This lush, sun-drenched region, known as the Treasure Coast, is renowned for its citrus groves and semitropical vegetation.
- Houston, despite some people's impression of the Texas climate, is a semitropical city that averages about 50 inches of rain annually.
- On a tree near their classrooms, a snagged blue-and-white Tesco shopping bag fluttered in the warm semitropical breeze like the flag of a distant empire.
- Among the palm trees and factories of this semitropical manufacturing region were clusters of contemporary Sanford & Son businesses that dealt with yang laji, or foreign rubbish.
- The mid-20th-century advent of air conditioning encouraged the growth of major cities and their suburbs in many parts of America characterized by semitropical and tropical climates.
- Alas, the city's history of one booster campaign after another, from railroads, citrus growers and land salesmen, has left Los Angeles—for all the semitropical metropolis's futurist gazing into the Pacific sun—with an inferiority complex.
- The southern semitropical island is important to the U.S. military because it is near China, Taiwan and the Korean peninsula, where tensions have risen sharply after North Korea was blamed last week for the sinking of a South Korean warship.
- Tour by Mexico. com reports that Morelos has an elevation ranging between 1,000 and 3,300 meters (2,900-9,800 ft) above sea level and that Cuernavaca has an elevation of 1,500 meters (5,000 ft.) above sea level with a climate ranging from moderate to semitropical.
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