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  sylva

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  Sylva

  noun

  Carmen pen name of Elizabeth, queen of Romania.

sylva

¹ American  

[sil-vuh] / ˈsɪl və /

noun

1. silva.

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Sylva ² American  

[sil-vuh, seel-vah] / ˈsɪl və, ˈsil vɑ /

noun

1. Carmen pen name of Elizabeth, queen of Romania.

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sylva British  

/ ˈsɪlvə /

noun

1. the trees growing in a particular region

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Etymology

Origin of sylva

From Latin

Example Sentences

Brito, however, expressly says of Flanders, that it is a place where, "Raris sylva locis facit umbram, vinea nusquam:  Indigenis potus Thetidi miscetur avena,  Ut vice sit vini multo confecta labore."

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson

When she began to publish her work, at the age of thirty-five, she asked a certain German writer to tell her the Latin word for "woods"; that gave her "sylva."

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.

The sylva was quite equal to anything they had witnessed on the Amazon; while the fauna—especially in quadrupeds and quadrumana—was far richer.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

The story of the country mouse, who must needs see the town, occurs forcibly to his recollection, and he exclaims aloud: "me sylva, cavusque Tutus ab insidiis tenui solabitur ervo."

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Surtees, Robert Smith

Such is the sylva that covers the alluvion of Louisiana.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne