selva
- noun
- /ˈsɛlvə/
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selva
- In the heart of the selva, the dense canopy blocked out most of the sunlight.
Examples
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Deborah Clark, who, along with her husband and fellow ecologist David Clark, has devoted a long career to studying La Selva's complex inner workings, describes it as a "postage stamp" of intact habitat in a landscape heavily altered by the hand of man.
Academic text (2007) -
Conquering all in their path, they left off when they got to the selva.
Fiction book (1991) -
But the trees at La Selva grew less in hotter years, more in cooler ones.
Academic text (2007) -
"But," one observer explained, "in this way the Tzeltales returned to the selva which had been taken from them by the conquistadors..."
Academic text (1996) -
Selva is the word for the Amazonian jungle, like Dante's selva oscura, except that this poet's world acknowledged design.
Fiction book (1991) -
Many types of wildlife thrive in the selva, including colorful birds and exotic mammals.
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The explorers traveled deep into the selva, where the sounds of nature surrounded them.
Synonyms
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2.3
A large, thick forest that gets a lot of rain and has many plants and animals
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2.7
A large area of tall trees near the equator that gets heavy rain and has many plants and animals
How Dense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Selva comes from the old Latin word silva, which means 'wood' or 'forest', and the same root appears in the name Sylvia. So selva now means a dense tropical forest, like the Amazon, which helps you remember it as a wild, wooded place.