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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
     m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
     maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
     m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
     {Moon}.]
     One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;


     the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
     length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
     name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
     a month.
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     Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
           twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
           --Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
           common law is generally changed, and a month is
           declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
           Blackstone.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     {A month mind}.
     (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
     (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
         month after death. --Strype.
  
     {Calendar months}, the months as adjusted in the common or
        Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
        containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
        which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
  
     {Lunar month}, the period of one revolution of the moon,
        particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
        distinguished, as the {synodical month}, or period from
        one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
        2.87 s.; the {nodical month}, or time of revolution from
        one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
        s.; the {sidereal}, or time of revolution from a star to
        the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
        {anomalistic}, or time of revolution from perigee to
        perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
        the {tropical}, or time of passing from any point of the
        ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
        s.
  
     {Solar month}, the time in which the sun passes through one
        sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
        s.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tropical \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
     See {Tropic}, n.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
        incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as,
        tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;
        tropical diseases.
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     2. [From {Trope}.] Rhetorically changed from its exact
        original sense; being of the nature of a trope;
        figurative; metaphorical. --Jer. Taylor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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. --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Tropic month}. See {Lunar month}, under {Month}.
  
     {Tropic year}, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun
        in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same
        again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48
        minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds
        shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the
        precession of the equinoxes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tropical
       adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics
              (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical
              islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: {tropic}]
       2: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical
          year"
       3: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes;
          changed from its literal sense
       4: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;
          "tropical weather" [syn: {tropic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "tropical":
     aestival, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid, equatorial, genial, hot,
     luke, lukewarm, mild, room-temperature, subtropical, sultry,
     summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic,
     toasty, torrid, tropic, unfrozen, warm, warm as toast, warmish
  
  

















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