France sent criminals to tropical penal colonies including Louisiana in the early 18th century.

I've been fascinated with the tropical French colony ever since.

His comic novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), about life in a tropical British colony, met with more critical success.

Syzygium cumini has been spread overseas from India by Indian emigrants and at present is common in former tropical British colonies.

Sugarcane does not grow in cold, frost-prone climate; therefore, tropical and semitropical colonies were sought.

All of the important powers had tropical colonies where rubber was produced.

He thought he might see an American room, or a Russian room, or a tropical colony.

In tropical British colonies gin was used to mask the bitter flavour of quinine, which was the only effective anti-malarial compound.

His career had begun in a tropical colony.

It is a resort town set high up in the mountains so that Europeans can find relief from the summer heat of tropical colonies.