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noun

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The correct spelling is volva. A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi.

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  1. 1.A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi.
  2. 2.In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy.
  3. 3.(by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch.

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