semitropics

It was as if they were in Oregon or New England, instead of the semitropics.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

Grown throughout the tropics and semitropics, sugarcane and its products, including cane juices, molasses, and sugar are used to make rum and an alcohol derived from rum.

24 Commercialization of Fermented Foods in Sub-Saharan Africa 1992

White men, welcomed by these Indians as gods, repaid the native hospitality by impressing natives as crews to a northern climate where the transition from semitropics meant almost certain death.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903