silva
Americannoun
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the forest trees of a particular area.
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a descriptive flora of forest trees.
noun
Etymology
Origin of silva
1840–50; < New Latin, special use of Latin silva woodland
Example Sentences
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The fans were devastated, had spent a fortune going to the games.. yet tevez and silva walked off pitch laughing and joking - suppose they were going to get their c200k for weeks work.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2012
In Latin silva is a wood but also the collection of raw materials needed for a building.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Woods, St. Silvester, because silva, in Latin, means “a wood.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The silva of the tropics contains many unknown trees, for there are still impenetrable tracts of forest.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
The meaning of the word silva, in the literary sense, is 'raw material' or 'rough draft'.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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