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sylvan
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sylvan has 1 sense
- sylvan(n = noun.person) silvan - a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods; Array is a kind of disembodied spirit, spirit
Adjective sylvan has 1 sense
- sylvan(s = adj.all) silvan - relating to or characteristic of wooded regions; "a shady sylvan glade"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. [1913 Webster]"The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious." [1913 Webster]
- Abounding in forests or in trees; woody. [1913 Webster]
A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. [1913 Webster]
"Her private orchards, walled on every side,
To lawless sylvans all access denied." [1913 Webster]
To lawless sylvans all access denied." [1913 Webster]
sylvan, n. [Sylva + furfuran.].
A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol , or methyl furfuran . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sylvan, adj. (also silvan)
1 a of the woods. b having woods; wooded.
2 rural.
1 a of the woods. b having woods; wooded.
2 rural.
Etymology
F sylvain (obs. silvain) or L Silvanus woodland deity f. silva a wood
THESAURUS
sylvan
afforestational, arboreous, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, hinterland, outback, reforestational, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, timbered, up-country, virgin, waste, wild, wilderness, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woodyROGET THESAURUS
sylvan
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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