noun
a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
• Syn: ↑Lesser Antilles
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑archipelago
• Part Holonyms: ↑Antilles
• Part Meronyms: ↑Netherlands Antilles, ↑Leeward Islands, ↑Windward Islands, ↑Windward Isles, ↑Barbados
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/kar"euh beez'/, n.
See under Antilles.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.