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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tropicalize.

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Examples

  • The architecture might be described as a tropicalized Swiss style -- Swiss eaves are developed into veranda roofs, and Swiss porches prolonged and lengthened into beautiful piazzas and balconies.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • "I am totally psyched," Mr. Lucas said, noting that they've worked up a tropicalized version of "Satisfaction," as well as an update of "Yolanda," a song made famous by the sisters' father, Cuban music legend Pablo Milanes.

    Gods, Monsters and Guitars Steve Dollar 2011

  • We also have  successfully tropicalized the sugar beet, which is typically a temperate climate crop, to produce sugar and ethanol.

    It’s the Agronomy, Stupid 2008

  • With new tropicalized soy seeds, Brazil turned the steamy cerrado into a garden, growing two crops of soy a year, plus a fallow crop of corn in between, against a single crop for Northern Hemisphere growers.

    BRAZIL'S GROWING POWER 2007

  • "Tropicalia, ou Panis et Circensis," the name of the most important album of the Brazilian counterculture, sums it up nicely: a tropicalized Europe, in which the center has abdicated, caught between irrelevance and demagoguery.

    Tropical Europe, Or 'Viva Evita!' 2007

  • The builders of bahian traditional houses have long-known how to keep interiors cool even with a blazing sun of more than 40ºC, long before the corbusian ideas had been tropicalized or even before Sir Norman Foster had given a precise, technological and scientific dimension to sustainable architecture.

    Dezeen Catherine Warmann 2010

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