Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The trees or forests of a region.
- noun A written work on the trees or forests of a region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sylva , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
- noun A description or history of the forest trees of a country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun forestry The
forest trees of a particular area
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the forest trees growing in a country or region
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?
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Kumara: I agree with your statement. tru malaka silva is a bloody asshole.
Kottu 2009
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Kumara: I agree with your statement. tru malaka silva is a bloody asshole.
indi.ca 2009
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Meeting of the minds with Transcendent Man director Barry Ptolemy from jason silva on Vimeo.
Jason Silva: The 'Transcendent' Singularity is Near Jason Silva 2011
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May my heros don't know where to begin: the flight that never w ... fostering creativity you are you but i am i pre lotus vieira de silva corridor more art ...
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TURNING INTO GODS - 'Concept Teaser' from jason silva on Vimeo.
Jason Silva: Turning Into Gods (or the Marriage of Science and Art) Jason Silva 2010
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The American people want the change and they can. — j. silva
Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Note 168: In memory training, silva, the forest, represented confused and disordered material.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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