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Native to the American tropics, morpho butterflies are distinguished by their brilliant iridescent blue wings.
Stored this way, fish from the tropics will last quite some considerable time in cold storage, at least five days.
In addition, the raffia palms, of which there are various species in the African tropics and a few in S. America, yield oil.
It was a sharp jut of rock on the top of a hill, a bare landscape amongst the tropics of the jungle.
He was knighted for this work in 1911, but was forced to retire from foreign service due to adverse affects of the tropics on his health.
Unless you live in the tropics, even the most toned among us is apt to uncover lackluster skin when summer comes.
Yields of cereal grains are likely to decrease in the tropics where many countries are already under water stress.
The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics.
These natives of the American tropics are commonly called zebra plants due to the characteristic striped foliage.
But its leakiness grew worse in the tropics, and an inspection of the careened vessel in the Gulf of Carpentaria revealed the worst.
Government policy has tried to stop or at least restrict slash-and-burn cultivation, both in Finland earlier and in the tropics today.
Australia is a big country, stretching from the tropics to the roaring forties, and it has a correspondingly wide range of climates.
The highlight, though, was our encounter with two army ant swarms, the most-sought after phenomenon in Latin American tropics.
Tamarinds may be eaten fresh, but they are most commonly used with sugar and water in the American tropics to prepare a cooling drink.
It's strange how even construction techniques in the tropics can seem exotic.
A widely known garden climber, the scarlet Rangoon creeper is a native of Africa which was introduced in the tropics as a popular ornamental.
An estimated 50 billion of the 200-400 billion birds on the earth make predictable seasonal movements between the temperate zone and the tropics.
The worm commonly known as dog heart worm, is widely dispersed and found in the tropics, subtropics and temperate zones.
The North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, which currently warms Europe by transporting heat from the tropics, weakens in the models.
The coconut tree is a palm, usually tall, which flourishes on seashores in the moister parts of the tropics.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Insect life is as active in Central America as in other parts of the tropics.
A ship returning from the tropics brought with it, it is supposed, some tiny little shell-fish, the teredo navalis.
Their origin is to be sought for in the Temperate Zone, and not between the tropics.
I have often found it, he adds, in the maws of the bonito, between the tropics in the Pacific Ocean.
This was accounted for by the fact that the light of swang was not half as intense as that of the outer sun in the tropics.
For the first and foremost effect of the tropics is to individualize things.
It rarely is seen in temperate regions, but often occurs in the tropics and subtropics.
The seasons, again, are less marked in the tropics than in temperate and circumpolar climates.
The jacana belongs to a small family of birds with representatives throughout the tropics.
But in the tropics, where the dance and jollity are no private matters, there is something sterile in commercialization.
Machu Picchu is on the border-line between the temperate zone and the tropics.
In some of the forests of the tropics a large description of pitcher plant is found.
Is this the dolce far niente of the Italians, the sweet do-nothing of the tropics?
If you carry gloves through the tropics be sure to wrap them well in oiled silk before starting.
The most remarkable among the elater beetles is the cuculio, or fire-fly, of the tropics.
It is esteemed a usurpation of privilege to baptize on crossing the tropics.
Everything was different, and we saw it through the eyes of youth and romance as epitomizing the storied tropics.
At the foot are the palms and aloes of the tropics, with the corn, wine, and oil of Italy.
It is my intention to move one of the tropics up there and transfer the Frigid Zone to the equator.
There is no greensward in the tropics, grass is not cultivated, and hay is never made.
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