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CARIBBEAN SEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream
Synonyms:
Caribbean; Caribbean Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean Sea"):
Caribbean Island (an island in the Caribbean Sea)
Context examples:
A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US.
(Mexico, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Nicaragua.
(Honduras, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique.
(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus)
An island group in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Jamaica.
(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)
An island group in the Caribbean Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras.
(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A country in Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama.
(Colombia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A country comprising the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti.
(Dominican Republic, NCI Thesaurus)
An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.
(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and north of Trinidad and Tobago.
(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus)
