Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affecting only wild animals.
- adjective Sylvan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sylvan; relating to woods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Sylvan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
woods orwoodland organisms;sylvan - adjective Of or pertaining to
wild rather thandomestic animals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All three cycles exist in Africa, but in South America, only sylvatic and urban yellow fever occur.
Chapter 2 1999
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For example, mosquito control programmes against wild mosquitoes in forested areas are not practical or cost-effective for preventing sylvatic infections.
Chapter 2 1999
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Infection of humans: There are three types of transmission cycle for yellow fever: sylvatic, intermediate and urban.
Chapter 2 1999
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Also, some swaths of the re-entry sites have been hit with canine distemper and the sylvatic plague, though newly introduced ferrets are vaccinated for both diseases.
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Wild felids are important for maintaining the sylvatic cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, but there is little information about the epidemiology and risk factors associated with infection in most of these animals.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Wildlife surveys conducted in Ireland show that the sylvatic or wildlife cycle of Trichinella continues in Ireland, independent of the domestic pig cycle.
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According to Pete Gober, coordinator of the federal government's black-footed ferret effort, Mr. Haverfield's ranch is one of the more important sites in the program because of its size and because the ferrets there show no sign of the sylvatic plague that has struck farther west.
NYT > Home Page By JOE STUMPE 2010
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The Chikungunya virus was classically isolated from several sylvatic
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Rural outbreaks were found to be heavily dependent upon the densities of these sylvatic mosquitos, which increase during periods of heavy rainfall.
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The group's discussion focused on sylvatic plague, learning more about the structure of the population, and pointed to the need to include solar development in the agency's conservation strategy.
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