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SYLVA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sylva mean?
• SYLVA (noun)
The noun SYLVA has 1 sense:
1. the forest trees growing in a country or region
Familiarity information: SYLVA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The forest trees growing in a country or region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
silva; sylva
Hypernyms ("sylva" is a kind of...):
forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)
Context examples
The importance of the family had thus dwindled, but they still retained the old Saxon manor-house, with a couple of farms and a grove large enough to afford pannage to a hundred pigs—sylva de centum porcis, as the old family parchments describe it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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