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 torrid zone
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 Tor·rid a.
 1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. “Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil.”
 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. “Torrid heat.”
 Torrid zone Geog., that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.
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 Torrid Zone
      n : the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer
          and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot
          climate [syn: tropical zone, tropics]