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- Sylvan - a. - Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
- Sylvan - a. - Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
- Sylvan - a. - A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
- Sylvan - n. - A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
- Sylvanite - n. - A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.
- Sylvanium - n. - An old name for tellurium.
- Satyr - n. - A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
- Zephyrus - n. - The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.