channel island

English Thesaurus

1. any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France (noun.location)

hyponym	:	island of jersey, jersey,
definition	:	the largest of the Channel Islands (noun.location)

hyponym	:	guernsey, island of guernsey,
definition	:	a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	island,
definition	:	a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (noun.object)

part meronym	:	british isles,
definition	:	Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic (noun.location)

part meronym	:	english channel,
definition	:	an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain (noun.object)