Skip to content
OneKitly

silva

nounattested in dialogue

The forest trees of a particular area

noun

  1. 1

    The forest trees of a particular area

    The most interesting and striking features of the silva of California relate to its composition, the geographical distribution of the species and their biological history.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

Forms

plural
silvas, silvae
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).