The West Indies, more commonly referred to as the Caribbean, consists of three major island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles include some of the most well-known individual islands, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English Â© 2017. -chron-, root. -chron- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning time.'' This meaning is found in such words as: anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronology, synchronize.
theme, rootage, ancestor, radical, ascendant, antecedent, etymon, base, beginning, solution, origin, stem, root, source, tooth root, ascendent, forerunner, root word. etymon, root (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. Synonyms: theme, rootage, radical, ancestor, antecedent, etymon, base, beginning, solution, origin, stem, root, source, ascendant, tooth root, ascendent, root word. root, tooth ...