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Trope (literature)
Trope (literature): originally a figure of speech (metaphor, metonymy, irony) from Greek tropos, 'turn'; broadly, any recurring character, plot, or setting pattern. Distinguished from motif, theme, and cliche; cataloged popularly by TV Tropes.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency YouTube video essay series (2013-2017) critiquing sexist tropes like damsel in distress; its Kickstarter raised $158,922 from about 6,968 backers.
Trophallaxis in social wasps
Trophallaxis in social wasps: mouth-to-mouth exchange of liquid food and fluids between adults and larvae in Vespidae, named by Wheeler in 1918; larvae act as a communal stomach and the fluid carries growth-regulating proteins.
Trophectoderm biopsy
Trophectoderm biopsy is an IVF micromanipulation procedure that removes 5 to 10 cells from a blastocyst's outer layer, days 5 to 7 after insemination, for preimplantation genetic testing.
Tropheryma
Tropheryma, sole species Tropheryma whipplei (formerly T. whippelii), a gram-positive actinobacterium causing Whipple's disease; slow-growing, reduced genome, common asymptomatic human carriage.
Trophic cascade
A trophic cascade is an indirect interaction in which a top predator's effects propagate down a food web to herbivores and plants, introduced by ecologist Robert Paine.
Trophic level
Trophic level: the feeding position of organisms in a food chain, from producers through herbivores and carnivores. Also Eltonian pyramid, trophic dynamics; about 10% energy transfer per level limits chains to roughly three to six levels.
Trophic state index
The trophic state index, also known as Carlson's Trophic State Index, is a 0 to 100 scale classifying lake productivity, developed by Robert E. Carlson in 1977.
Trophoblast
Trophoblast: the placental epithelium derived from the blastocyst trophectoderm, with cytotrophoblast, syncytiotrophoblast, and extravillous trophoblast subtypes mediating hormone secretion, nutrient exchange, and uterine invasion.
Trophoblast giant cell
Trophoblast giant cell (TGC): large polyploid placental trophoblast cell, usually mononuclear, formed by endoreduplication in rodents (up to 1000N DNA) or cell fusion in humans and opossum; endocrine and vascular-remodeling functions.
Trophy
Trophy: a physical award for victory or achievement, from Greek tropaion battlefield monuments to silver sporting cups, mass-produced plastic figurines, and 2026 sustainable, 3D-printed, digitally connected award design.
Trophy (מעיל רוח) (countermeasure)
Trophy, also known as TROPHY Active Protection System (Hebrew: מעיל רוח), is an Israeli active protection system that destroys incoming rockets and missiles before they strike armored vehicles.
Trophy hunting
Trophy hunting, also called hunting for sport, is the recreational killing of wild animals for trophies such as horns, tusks, and skins, a multimillion-dollar industry practiced worldwide.
Trophy Property Development
Trophy Property Development is a family of Cayman-domiciled private equity real estate funds, launched in 2007 by Hong Kong-based Winnington Capital to invest in Chinese residential and mixed-use developments.
Trophy wife
Trophy wife: informal derogatory term for a young attractive wife seen as a status symbol for an older, affluent husband; popularized by a 1989 Fortune cover story; McClintock's ASR research found the beauty-for-status exchange behind the stereotype largely a myth.
Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari
Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari is a 2025 three-part ABC News Studios true-crime docuseries on Hulu, directed by Dani Sloane, about Pittsburgh dentist Larry Rudolph's 2016 Zambia safari murder of his wife Bianca and his conviction.
Tropic Air Flight 711
Tropic Air Flight 711 was a 2025 Belizean domestic flight hijacked by Akinyela Sawa Taylor, who stabbed the pilot and passengers before being fatally shot by a passenger.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer: circle of latitude at about 23.4 degrees north, equal to Earth's axial tilt, where the Sun is overhead at the June solstice; northern tropics boundary crossing 16 countries and the desert belt.
Tropic of Cancer (novel)
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's 1934 semi-autobiographical Paris novel published by Obelisk Press with an Anaïs Nin preface, was banned in the US for 27 years until Grove Press's 1961 edition and the 1964 Supreme Court ruling in Grove Press v. Gerstein.
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn: parallel at 23°26′S, southern boundary of the tropics and southernmost latitude where the Sun can be overhead. Crosses 10 countries, including Australia, Brazil, and South Africa, and the Atacama, Namib, and Kalahari deserts.
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action comedy directed and co-written by Ben Stiller, starring Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. as actors lost in a real jungle war.
Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum
Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum (熱帯・亜熱帯都市緑化植物園), a free-admission botanical garden in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, Okinawa, opened October 1990; about 6.8 ha with over 400 subtropical urban-greening species in eight sample zones.
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, a WWF terrestrial biome of high-elevation pine and pine-oak forests, mainly in North and Central America, with about 9.8 million hectares of strictly tropical conifer forest, fire-driven regeneration, and the Central American pine-oak forests as its largest ecoregion.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, or tropical rainforests and moist forests, are frost-free evergreen broadleaf biomes needing roughly 2000+ mm annual rain. They hold 247 Gt C, over half of Earth's species, and 1071 Mha remain amid record 2024 loss.
Tropical aquarium (France)
Aquarium tropical de la Porte Dorée, Paris public aquarium created for the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Albert Laprade's Palais; about 4,400 animals of 350 species in 84 tanks, with crocodile pit heritage and conservation programs.
Tropical aquarium (Germany)
Tropen-Aquarium Hagenbeck (Tropical Aquarium), Hamburg public aquarium opened 7 May 2007 beside Tierpark Hagenbeck; 8,000 m², 2 million L salt water, 1.8-million-liter shark atoll; distinct from Cologne pet shop and other German Tropenaquariums.
Tropical Aviary
Tropical Aviary (צפרייה טרופית) is the walk-through rainforest bird and animal exhibit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, with humid air, water misting, mangrove marshes, crowned pigeons, tegus, and the golden-handed tamarin; the name also covers similar exhibits at San Francisco, Fresno, and other zoos.
Tropical Butterfly House (Spain)
Tropical Butterfly House (Mariposario Tropical), a small butterfly zoo exhibit in Granada's Parque de las Ciencias science museum, Andalusia, Spain, supplied with pupae from Tenerife's CEN butterfly farm.
Tropical climate
A tropical climate is a continually hot climate of equatorial and tropical regions with considerable precipitation, forming Köppen group A with all months above 18 °C.
Tropical cyclogenesis
Tropical cyclogenesis is the process by which a tropical cyclone forms, typically progressing from a tropical disturbance through depression and storm stages to a full cyclone.