The Collaborative International Dictionary
West India \West` In"di*a\, West Indian \West` In"di*an\ Belonging or relating to the West Indies.
West India tea (Bot.), a shrubby plant ( Capraria biflora) having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
Usage examples of "west india".
Tomorrow he would tell him that the West India squadron no longer had a Commander-in-Chief.
Traces of this Greek dissemination are to be found far away in central Asia and in north-west India.
Observe how the papers teem with the misery of the lower classes in England, yet this affects not the West India philanthropist.
Ole Skovgaard and his daughter had been offered a vantage point on the balcony of the West India Company warehouse from where they could look down on the Prince as he walked to the water's edge.
Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance.