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Definition of Selvas
1. selva [n] - See also: selva
Medical Definition of Selvas
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Selvas
Literary usage of Selvas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primary Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1894)
"Natives of the selvas. The slopes outside the world ridge are shorter than those
inside ... selvas. A very large part of this slope consists of wide plains. ..."
2. Pictures of Travel in Far-off Lands: A Companion to the Study of Geography by Thomas Nelson & Sons, William Henry Freeman, Sargent (1871)
"THE selvas or Forest Plains of the Amazon, lying in the centre of the continent,
form the second division of the North American lowlands. ..."
3. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"Far more doubtful is the future of the third section, the selvas, or forest-covered
Amazonian plain. It includes nearly all the western half of Brazil, ..."
4. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"Far more doubtful is the future of the third section, the selvas, or forest-covered
Amazonian plain. It includes nearly all the western half of Brazil, ..."
5. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"... Situation — Area — Population — Main physical divisions — The Guayana Highlands —
Mountains, rivers, and forests — The Llanos—selvas—Mesas—Rivers and ..."
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