Tropical
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A tropical plant.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south. From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather. Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Example sentence: The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
Figurative
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".Metaphorically so calledWith many figures of speechEmblematic