Caribees

Caribees
noun
a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
Syn: ↑Lesser Antilles
Instance Hypernyms: ↑archipelago
Part Holonyms: ↑Antilles

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/kar"euh beez'/, n.
See under Antilles.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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