Tropical-cyclone
noun
1.
a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names.
Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
tropical cyclone
(trŏp’ĭ-kəl)
See under cyclone.
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