torrid zone
English
Noun
- The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
- They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
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