Torrid /(?)/

Tor·rid

Torrid

a.
  1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
  2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

Phrases & Compounds
Torrid zone
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.