tropical cyclone
noun
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.
Origin of tropical cyclone
First recorded in 1915–20
Words nearby tropical cyclone
Scientific definitions for tropical cyclone
tropical cyclone
[ trŏp′ĭ-kəl ]
See under cyclone.