Definition of "sylvian" [sylvian]

• Of or pertaining to the genus Sylvia, or family Sylviidæ; being, related to, or resembling a member of the Sylviidæ; warbler-like. See warbler, Sylviidæ, Sylvicolidæ.
• One of the warblers; a member of the genus Sylvia or family Sylviidæ of the Old World, or (noun)
• Of the family Mniotiltidæ of America. See these words, and warbler. (noun)
• Relating or named from the anatomist Jacques Dubois, Latinized Sylvius (1478–1555): specifically applied in anatomy to several parts.

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• "Next day we buried him in the beautiful cemetery of Happy Valley, than which there are few more picturesque spots in China; 'twas surely a poetic fancy which inspired the Chinese with the term "_happy_" when naming this sylvian vale."
• "As Fanfulla awoke he beheld an apparition coming towards him, a figure lithe and stalwart as a sylvian god, the water shining on the ivory whiteness of his skin and glistening in his sable hair as the sunlight caught it."