Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Torrid

Torrid , adjective

[Latin torridus, from torrere to parch, to burn, akin to English Thist: compare French torride. See Thirst.]

1.
Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil. — Milton
2.
Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
Torrid heat. — Milton
Collocations (1)
Torrid zone (Geography) , that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.