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Definition of Antilles

1. Noun. A group of islands in the West Indies.

Definition of Antilles

1. Proper noun. The islands of the West Indies, bounded (and including) to the north by the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antilles

Literary usage of Antilles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"r;ot been found in the Greater Antilles and 53.8 per cent, of those known from the Greater Antilles have not been reported from the Lesser Antilles. ..."

2. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1894)
"HE islands lying in proximity to the Venezuelan coast, and usually grouped with the Antilles, are not to be regarded as all belonging to the same formation. ..."

3. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"The Antilles are an archipelago, or rather a group of archipelagoes, ... Similarly, the southern division of the archipelago, the Lesser Antilles, ..."

4. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America by Charles Washington Baird (1885)
"THE Antilles. 1625-1686. Early in the seventeenth century, the archi- chap. in. pelago that lies between the two American continents became the resort of ..."

5. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"This route, however, is followed by only a small portion of the birds which migrate southward, through Florida and the Bahamas, into the Greater Antilles. ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"ALBRECHT, J. f. O. 1862, p. 205 (Jamaica). Gallinago media -wilsoni WELLS, List Bds. Grenada, p. 8 (1886). Bahamas and Antilles during migrations. ..."

7. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... is almost peculiar to the Antilles ; Cuba, Hayti, and Jamaica possessing seven species, while only one is recorded from South America. ..."

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