volva

1. 1.

   cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi

   Broaderplant part

   Part offungus

Other forms of volva

plural

volvae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about volva

What does volva mean?

volva means "cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi".

How many syllables are in volva?

volva has 2 syllables: vol-va. The stress falls on "vol".

Is volva a common word?

volva is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.