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  • noun Plural form of selva.

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Examples

  • Diversidad florística y estado de conservación de las selvas tropicales de México.

    Bajío dry forests 2007

  • Caminando por el mundo se ven ríos y montañas se ven selvas y desiertos pero ni puntos ni rayas.

    WHO WERE THE WITCHES? Maggie Jochild 2007

  • La vegetación de las selvas del transecto Buritaca.

    Santa Marta montane forests 2008

  • Herpetofauna de las selvas subtropicales, Puna y Pampas.

    Southern Andean steppe 2007

  • A loucura do século XIX, um white man's burden distorcido pelas profundezas das selvas luxuriantes do congo, transforma-se na guerra anticomunista, um white man's burden do século XX.

    Charlie Don't Surf Artur 2005

  • O filme conta uma história sobre o vietname, mas é inspirado num conto de Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, onde Marlow, um agente comercial inglês, embrenha-se nas selvas do rio Congo em busca de Kurtz, um homem branco que enlouqueceu na selva africana.

    Charlie Don't Surf Artur 2005

  • All the rain that falls on the _llanos_ and the _selvas_ (as the wooded plains are called) makes its way through innumerable affluents to the Amazons and enters the sea through its trumpet-shaped mouth.

    From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

  • Surveyed thus from the east to the west, from the north to the south, they are rich beyond thought, immortal, immeasurable, enough and to spare for every feeding, sheltering beast and bird, insect and son of Adam; and nobody need have cared had there been no pines in Norway, no cedars and deodars on Lebanon and the Himalayas, no vine-clad selvas in the basin of the Amazon.

    American Forests 1897

  • Llanos of Varinas and of Caracas, the bosques or selvas (forests) of the

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Varinas and of Caracas, the bosques or selvas (forests) of the Amazon, and the Pampas of Buenos Ayres.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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