Sentence:  Paintings and drawings by Marie Moore of St. Thomas , <WSD>Virgin</WSD> Islands , are shown thru Nov. 5 at the Meadows gallery , 3211 Ellis Ave. , week days , 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. , Sundays 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. , closed Mondays . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain