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▪ I. ‖ volva1 Bot.|ˈvɒlvə|
[L. volva (Pliny), f. volvĕre to roll, wrap.]
The membranous covering which completely encloses many fungi in the early stage of growth.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Volva,..a membranous matter surrounding the bases of many of the fungi. 1784Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 423 This..vegetable production arises from a volva, which is buried six or eight inches deep in dry sandy banks. 1856Henslow Bot. Terms 159 Ring,..the debris left round the stipes of some agarics by the bursting of the volva. 1874Cooke Fungi 28 In Phalloidei the hymenium is at first enclosed within a sort of peridium or universal volva, maintaining a somewhat globose or egg-shape.
Hence ˈvolvate a. (In recent Dicts.)
▪ II. volva2|ˈvɒlva|
[ad. ON. völva (also used) (Norw. volve) prophetess, sibyl.]
In Scandinavian mythology, a prophetess, a soothsayer, a witch.
1889P. B. Du Chaillu Viking Age I. iv. 27 The Völuspa was an inspired poem of a Völva or Sibyl, and embodies the records of the creation of the present world. 1927E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse v. 40 It is the most complete description extant of the volva or sibyl of Scandinavian heathen times. 1966S. Wavell et al. Trances xvi. 133 The priestesses of Freyja known as volva were the shamans of their time. They wore animal skins, their boots made of calf skin, their gloves lined with the fur of arctic cats, their goddess being drawn in a cat carriage. |