| Sylvan 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. 2. (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody. 3. (n.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. 4. (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran. Thesaurus Entries 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, woody |