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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
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