Definitions for selvas

selvas sel·va

Spelling: [sel-vuh]
IPA: /ˈsɛl və/

Selvas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in selvas (aelssv).

Definitions for selvas

noun

  1. a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.

Origin of selvas

1840-50; Brazilian Portuguese; Portuguese: forest Latin silva

Examples for selvas

The selvas spent the winter in Rome, the rest of the year at Subiaco.

He said he would also send him the young girl who was with the selvas.

I wished to speak to you when we were on our way to the selvas', but you were in haste to be there, and so it was not possible.

The selvas had often interrupted di Leyni with exclamations of surprise and indignation.

"The selvas told me you lived in the Veneto," the Padre added.

At last the selvas came to the Purús River, and down this it steamed.

At first the meetings had been held at the selvas' apartment, in Via Arenula.

She and Signorina d'Arxel, wishing to surprise the selvas, had forbidden him to tell.

He said he was aware that Jeanne was a friend of the selvas.

The man was a muleteer, sent by the selvas to look for Benedetto.

Word Value for selvas
Scrable

0

Words with friends

11

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