trop

Usage

• trope

  Tropes are expressions, phrases, or words that writers use as a clever method for expressing everyday ideas in a nonliteral and creative way.

• entropy

  Entropy is the lack of organization or measure of disorder currently in a system.

• contrived

  When something is contrived, it is obviously thought about or planned beforehand, although it tries to be passed off as not being so.

• tropism

  Tropism is the movement, growth, or bending of a plant or other anchored organism towards an external stimulus, such as light, gravity, or heat.

• tropical

  Tropical weather is hot and wet most of the time.

• entropic

  relating to a lack of organization or measure of disorder currently in a system

• heliotrope

  green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood

• subtropical

  of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics

• trophy

  an award for success in war or hunting

• tropics

  the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn