british virgin islands

English Thesaurus

1. more than 40 northeastern Virgin Islands (15 inhabited); a dependent territory of the United Kingdom (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	possession,
definition	:	a territory that is controlled by a ruling state (noun.location)

part meronym	:	virgin islands,
definition	:	a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain (noun.location)