v. [f. TROPICAL + -IZE.] trans. To make tropical; to give a tropical character to. Hence Tropicalized ppl. a.
1864. H. P. Leland, in U.S. Service Mag., II. Dec., 569. Oh! picture, too beautiful to be drawn by pen; too fairy-like for brush, unless Hamilton will tropicalize; it for us.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 125. Vegetation not unlike a patch of British fern suddenly transferred to a temperature of about fifty degrees above what it is accustomed to—and thus, as it were ‘tropicalised.’
1888. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 616. The architecture is a tropicalized Swiss style.
