silva

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The fans were devastated, had spent a fortune going to the games.. yet tevez and silva walked off pitch laughing and joking - suppose they were going to get their c200k for weeks work.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2012

In Latin silva is a wood but also the collection of raw materials needed for a building.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It is a moonlit plain compared with the "silva oscura" of the "Divina Commedia."

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

The meaning of the word silva, in the literary sense, is 'raw material' or 'rough draft'.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

The silva of the tropics contains many unknown trees, for there are still impenetrable tracts of forest.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen