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Selva

[sel-vuh]

noun

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

Origin:
1840–50; < Brazilian Portuguese; Portuguese: forest < Latin silva

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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selva (ˈsɛlvə)

—n
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

[C19: from Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin silva forest]

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