sylva

1 When she began to publish her work, at the age of thirty-five, she asked a certain German writer to tell her the Latin word for "woods"; that gave her "sylva."

2 The sylva was quite equal to anything they had witnessed on the Amazon; while the fauna—especially in quadrupeds and quadrumana—was far richer.

3 From the glance they had had of it, Karl had no doubt that its flora and sylva were exceedingly rich and varied.

4 Such is the sylva that covers the alluvion of Louisiana.

5 Not a very scientific one, it is true; but in whatever way obtained, he possessed a respectable knowledge of flora and sylva, and evinced an aptitude for the study not inferior to Linneus himself.

6 Not in the tropic, surely, for these trees are of a northern sylva.

7 The result of this position is a triple river system—the Orinoco, Amazon, and La Plata, draining three immense plains—the llanos of Venezuela, the sylvas of Brazil, and the pampas of the Argentine Republic.

8 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.

9 Of the sylva we will only say, it is equal in value and variety to that of any section of our country.

10 Had I been in the midst of a forest surrounded by a northern sylva, I could have made out my course.

11 He read of cities with silver walls and golden towers waiting on the discoverer, and of a river on whose banks "virescit sylva vitae."

1 文集

corpus

2 森林

forest woodland sylvan woodsy sylvatic wood plantation woods bush timber forestry silvical woody timbered forestal wold timberland

3 林木

grovy stand

4 诗集

garland divan Parnassus