Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The trees or forests of a region.
- n. A written work on the trees or forests of a region.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See sylva, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
- n. A description or history of the forest trees of a country.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the forest trees growing in a country or region
Etymologies
- From Latin silva (Wiktionary)
- Latin, forest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Note 168: In memory training, silva, the forest, represented confused and disordered material.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silva’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Recently Loved Words
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howl, lichenous, uncomplicated, siliceous, clatter, hubris, dervish, articulated, acerbic, Recently Loved Words, mellifluous, anomaly and 45 more...
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Verba Silvestria
Words of the Woods or Words of the Wilds
sylvestral, sylvester, silvester, silvestrian, sylvestrian, silvatic, sylvatic, silvan, sylvan, silva, sylva, nemorose and 108 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
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