volva

Borrowed from Latin volva.

volva (plural volvas or volvae)

1. A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi.
   • 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VI, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:

     The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap.

2. The membranous covering which completely encloses many fungi in the early stage of growth.
   • 1989, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition:

volva (plural volvas)

1. Alternative form of völva.

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• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔl.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvɔl.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɔl.va]

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Probably from Gaulish *ulva (“spray, wisp”).

volva f (plural volves)

1. mote, speck
2. flake (of snow)
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 12, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Els focus no mostraven res més que volves de neu que queien del cel en espiral.

     The light beams showed nothing but snowflakes spiraling down from the sky.

• volvós

Learned borrowing from Latin volva.

volva f (plural volves)

1. (botany) volva

• volvat

• volvar

• “volva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

volva

1. inflection of volver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.va/
• Rhymes: -ɔlva
• Hyphenation: vòl‧va

Borrowed from Latin volva, alternative form of vulva.

volva f (plural volve)

1. volva (cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi)

• vulva

• fungo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

volva

1. inflection of volvere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

volva

1. inflection of volver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative