Sylvan /(?)/
Syl·van
Sylvan
a.
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Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious.
- Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
Sylvan
n.
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A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied.
Sylvan
n.
- A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran. (Chem.)