as in tropical
being near the equator a lush equatorial rain forest that is threatened by rampant development

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Recent Examples of equatorial The phenomenon means average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific have consistently been below average. Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025 La Niña is a weather pattern formed by cooler-than-average equatorial sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific and is the opposite of El Niño. Jim Foerster, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 Most of the world’s coffee is grown in an equatorial region that spans Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa known as the Coffee Belt. Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025 The frigid caps of our home planet are invisible to humans on board the International Space Station, for example, which orbits near Earth’s equatorial line. Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for equatorial

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“Equatorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equatorial. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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