ulva

Borrowed from translingual Ulva, itself from Latin ulva (“sedge”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.və/
• Rhymes: -ɔlvə
• Homophone: Ulva

ulva (plural ulvas)

1. Any organism of the genus Ulva.
   • 1875, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia, page 774:

     The ulvas belong to the chlorospermous class of seaweeds, distinguished by their green spores, and the generally green color of their fronds. There are several species of ulva common to both shores of the Atlantic, […]

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊɫ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈul.va]

ulva f (genitive ulvae); first declension

1. sedge

   Synonym: cārex

First-declension noun.

• Galician: Olveira (place name), olga
• Translingual: 'Ulva

• “ulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ulva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.