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One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

Acclimation. [R.]

leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Capable of being acclimated.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

o produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough pap…

The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. A sweetness and amenity of temper. Buckle. This climate has not seduced by its amenities. W. Howitt.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

poda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

To acclimate or become acclimated.

A description of climates.