torrid

Parched with the heat of the sun; intensely hot.

Scorching; burning.

Passionate; ardent.

Hurried; rapid.

Parched and dry with heat, especially of the sun; arid; sultry; hot; specifically, noting a zone of the earth’s surface.

Burning; scorching; parching.

Parched; dried with heat.

Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

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.