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adj. - Of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the warmer climates that are frost-free.

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  • Apparently, semitropic heat conditions always have a certain effect on the breed's milk-production capacity.
  • A moment later she was inside the "guest-house," in a large room heated to semitropic temperatures by an enormous fire in the fireplace.
  • Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow.
  • This level marshland, the barren, metallic mountains, and a sort of semitropic jungle, partly inundated by water, comprise nearly all the area of the Light Country.
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