Source : WordNet®

Aegadean Isles
     n 1: a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the
          Mediterranean [syn: {Egadi Islands}, {Aegadean Islands},
           {Isole Egadi}, {Aegates}]
     2: islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands)
        where the Romans won a naval victory over the
        Carthaginians that ended the first of the Punic Wars in
        241 BC [syn: {Aegates Isles}]