sylva

IPA: sˈɪɫvʌ

Root Word: Sylva

An incorporated town, the county seat of Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.
Alternative spelling of silva [(forestry) The forest trees of a particular area]

Examples of "sylva" in Sentences

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This was designated the "ingens sylva" by the ancient Romans.
The "Nativity", in Berlin, is a sylva rerum unequalled in art.
The argumentum a sylva is a prevailing one with the slaveholder.
Of the sylva we will only say, it is equal in value and variety to that of any section of our country.
Capilli retia Cupidinis, sylva caedua, in qua nidificat Cupido, sub cujus umbra amores mille modis se exercent.
Hortus principis et domus ad delectationem facia, cum sylva, monte et piscina, vulgo la montagna: the prince's garden at
He read of cities with silver walls and golden towers waiting on the discoverer, and of a river on whose banks "virescit sylva vitae."
As usual with the sylva, flora, and fauna, this also is found lowest along the coast, where it finds the requisite temperature and other essentials, with combined moisture.
Cicero calleth sylva and supellex, stuff and variety, to begin with those arts (as if one should learn to weigh, or to measure, or to paint the wind) doth work but this effect, that the wisdom of those arts, which is great and universal, is almost made contemptible, and is degenerate into childish sophistry and ridiculous affectation.