The roots are filled with starch, and have long been used as food in various semitropical countries.
The bamboo cane, a gigantic grass, cultivated in many tropical andsemitropical countries.
There are worlds of interest, however, centred in the notable circumstance that Australia, a new and a semitropical country, is now being peopled by the descendants of those who belonged to an entirely different climate.
A very remarkable instance of insect help is found in the pollination of the yucca, a semitropical lily which lives in deserts (to be seen in most botanic gardens).
The vultures of India and semitropical countries are of immense value as scavengers.
Then a spell of cold so severe and protracted grips the earth that glaciers glitter on the flanks of Indian and Australian hills, and fields of ice spread over what are now semitropical regions.
That this vast warm ocean, stretching southward over a large part of what is now the Sahara, should give a semitropical aspect even to Central Europe and Asia is not surprising.
Sugar-cane is grown in tropical and semitropical countries all over the globe.
In tropical and semitropical regions there are mammals, some of them quite large, which feed upon insects.
Ostrich farming is practical only in tropical and semitropical countries; the plumage of the birds is too scanty to protect them in the cold winters of temperate climes.
The beginning of a tropical industry in what would be considered a semitropical climate was noted in 1914, when the Southwestern Sugar Company of Arizona milled their first crop of sugar cane and made it into sugar.
Perhaps the last semitropical region to attempt this industry in a commercial way was the State of Arizona, U.
The humid portion of the lower austral province extends northward from the Gulf strip, and presents a transition in climatic conditions between the semitropical Gulf coast and the more markedly temperate climate of the upper austral.
Cochineal is derived from a scale-insect which feeds on the juices of some of the Mexican species, and the fruit of several species is refreshing and is consumed in considerable quantities in semitropical countries.
From twenty-five to thirty species are recognized, all inhabitants of tropical and semitropical regions.
South and east of TacAimbaro our specimens all were taken in dry semitropical country, where bananas and sugar cane were the principal crops grown.
Known only from the semitropical Life-zone in western MichoacAin.
Southern part of state in semitropical and tropical areas.
Our collecting all was done below (south of) the town in the semitropical country and none at all was done above (north of) the town.
Semitropical and tropical western part of the state.
All varieties of these fruits are tropical or semitropical and are shipped to the North in boxes that contain various numbers, the number that can be packed in a box depending on the size of the fruit.
The persimmon is a semitropical plum-like fruit, globular in shape and an orange-red or yellow in color.
The one thousand[111] or more known species are distributed over the tropical and semitropical regions of the entire world.
Florida's position at the wayside of the life line connecting Spain with her colonies meant that this semitropical peninsula was of great strategic importance.
Its every wall covered with a hard, waterproofing, white lime plaster, the castillo reflected the semitropical sunlight with a brilliance reminiscent of the old-time glory of Spain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semitropical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
