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Selva definition: a tropical rainforest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.. See examples of SELVA used in a sentence.
Noun (1) Spanish & Portuguese, forest, from Latin silva wood, grove. Noun (2) from La Selva, estancia near Bogotá, Colombia. Love words? You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
OED's earliest evidence for selva is from 1849, in the writing of Mary Somerville, science writer and mathematics expositor. selva is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish.
Selva (Peru), one of the three principal geographic regions of Peru, with the costa and sierra. The selva, or tropical rain forest, is located east of the Andes in an area that comprises fully two thirds of the country's total landmass, but contains only 11 percent of the population.
selva in British English. (ˈsɛlvə ) noun. 1. dense equatorial forest, esp in the Amazon basin, characterized by tall broad-leaved evergreen trees, epiphytes, lianas, etc. 2. a tract of such forest. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Definitions of selva. noun. a rain forest in a tropical area. synonyms: tropical rain forest. see more. see less. type of: rain forest, rainforest. a forest with heavy annual rainfall.
Jun 3, 2024 · selva f (plural selvas) jungle. O leão é o rei da selva. The lion is the king of the jungle. woods, forest. Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus: floresta. ( figuratively) mass, multitude, forest.
