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Wavy vs Tavy - What's the difference?

wavy | tavy |

As nouns the difference between wavy and tavy

is that wavy is alternative form of lang=en goose while tavy is a slash and burn agricultural technique used in Madagascar.

As an adjective wavy

is rising or swelling in waves.

As a proper noun Tavy is

tavistock.

wavy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Rising or swelling in waves.
  • Full of waves.
  • Moving to and fro; undulating.
  • Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
  • (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
  • (heraldry) , in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
  • Etymology 2

    See wavey .

    Noun

    (wavies)
  • (goose).
  • * 1862 , in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history , volume 20, page 7835:
  • According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
  • * 1888 , in the Journals of the Senate of Canada , volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
  • The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.

    tavy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A slash and burn agricultural technique used in Madagascar.