Volva vs Virginia - What's the difference?
volva | virginia |
a cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi
A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1840 (Frederick Marryat), Poor Jack , Chapter III,
* 1854 , The Western Home, and Other Poems , Parry & McMillan, 1854, page 87 ,
* 1956 (Charlotte Armstrong), A Dram of Poison , Coward-McCann, pages 164-165:
As a noun volva
is a cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi or volva can be .As a proper noun virginia is
virginia (us state).volva
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) volva.Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
References
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virginia
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!
- Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia ; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.
- O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!
- She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.