low countries

English Thesaurus

1. the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region,
definition	:	a demarcated area of the Earth (noun.location)

part meronym	:	europe,
definition	:	the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles (noun.object)