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Feb. 25, 2016
sylvan \SIL-vuh n\ adjective
1. of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
2. consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody: a
shady, sylvan glade.
Quotes The scene thrills one like military music!â¦wide grass-carpeted
avenues that branched hither and thither in every direction and
wandered to seemingly interminable distances, walled all the way on
either side with compact ranks of leafy trees whose branches met above
and formed arches as faultless and as symmetrical as ever were carved
in stone; and here and there were glimpses of sylvan lakes with
miniature ships glassed in their surfaces.
-- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress,
1869 Origin Sylvan derives from the Latin term for "forest," sylva. It
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