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Definition of Greater antilles

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

Definition of Greater antilles

1. Proper noun. The islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greater Antilles

Literary usage of Greater 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. 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. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"398, September 12, 1902), I compared the species with the related form occurring in the greater antilles, but neglected to mention the technical name of the ..."

4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1894)
"Santa Cruz, the Virgin Islan da, and the greater antilles.1 Santa Cruz is the broad summit of the bank which extends east of the island for a distance of ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"It seems that in the beginning of the Tertiary the old Antillean continent was divided into two main sections— the greater antilles with Honduras and ..."

6. An Account of the European Settlements in America: Containing an Accurate by Edmund Burke, William Burke (1808)
"The discovery of the Bahamas, and greater antilles. •. ** THERE was an extraordinary coincidence ef events at the time that the discovery of America made ..."

7. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"... Mediterranean—The greater antilles—Orographic System —The Bahamas—Coralline Formations—Communications between the Inland and Oceanic Waters—The Lesser ..."

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