Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tropic_of_capricorn

1 sense of tropic of capricorn

Sense 1
Tropic of Capricorn -- (a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator)
       INSTANCE OF=> 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)