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VIRGIN ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Virgin Islands"):
Virgin Islands National Park (a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals; sandy beaches and coral reefs)
British Virgin Islands (more than 40 northeastern Virgin Islands (15 inhabited); a dependent territory of the United Kingdom)
American Virgin Islands; United States Virgin Islands; VI (more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States)
Holonyms ("Virgin Islands" is a part of...):
the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)
