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
Forests, St. Sylvester, because silva, in Latin, means “a wood.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The silva of the tropics contains many unknown trees, for there are still impenetrable tracts of forest.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
It is a moonlit plain compared with the "silva oscura" of the "Divina Commedia."
From Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp
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