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

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

Not in the tropic, surely, for these trees are of a northern sylva.

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

As usual with the sylva, flora, and fauna, this also is found lowest along the coast, where it finds the requisite temperature and other essentials, with combined moisture.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

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