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Definition of Caribbean sea

1. Noun. An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream.

Definition of Caribbean sea

1. Proper noun. A tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caribbean Sea

Literary usage of Caribbean sea

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

1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"Mention has already been made of the pirates whose exploits in the caribbean sea fill a large space in the early annals of West Indian history. ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"Mention has already been made of the pirates whose exploits in the caribbean sea fill a large space in the early annals of West Indian history. ..."

3. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"THOUGH much has been written and published on the Columbian guano of the Caribbean Sea, which is also termed Phosphatic guano, native Super-Phosphate of ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1882)
"... of a relief model of the Gulf of Mexico and of manuscript charts from data obtained during the recent operations of the Survey in the caribbean sea. ..."

5. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"GENERAL SURVEY The "American Mediterranean "—Gulf of Mexico and caribbean sea These island-studded and land-encircled waters also present some remarkable ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Similarly, it would seem, the Mexican- caribbean sea is the remaining portion of an ancient inland sea which formerly stretched north through the heart of ..."

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