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Feb 13, 2012
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tropo-




a combining form meaning “turn,” “reaction, response,” “change,” “troposphere,” used in the formation of compound words: tropophilous. Also, esp. before a vowel,trop-.Cf. -trope, -tropism, -tropy, -tropic, -tropous.

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