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 veracity of the following passage of Tacitus is therefore fully confirmed:—'Deligitque locum artis faucibus, et a tergo sylva clausum; satis cognito, nihil hostium, nisi in fronte, et apertam planitiem esse, sine metu insidiarum.'

From Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Which Hickes thus renders: "Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c.

From Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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

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

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

Iste, transito Rheno, Romanos in Carbonaria sylva devicit, Camaracum cepit & obtinuit, annis 20 regnavit.

From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Newton, Isaac, Sir