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What does Greater Antilles mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.
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Ciboney, also spelled Siboney, Indian people of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
Hispaniola, Spanish La EspaƱola, second largest island of the West Indies, lying within the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea.
This hurricane reached over a zone stretching in breadth from Florida to the Greater Antilles.
We suggest that such exchange was crucial to shaping the pre-Colonial socio-cultural landscape in the Greater Antilles.
Comparisons are made between species found in the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and adjacent mainland.
By this time the natives of the Greater Antilles were gone, and with them the thousands of captives from the mainland.

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