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sylvatic, silvatic, a.|sɪlˈvætɪk|
Also 8 selvatick (after It. selvatico).
[ad. L. silvāticus, f. silva: see sylva and -atic. Cf. F. sylvatique.]
1. Belonging to or found in woods; of the nature of a wood or woodland; sylvan; † transf. rustic, boorish (obs.). rare.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge a v b, Insectivorous,..and..not melodious, as the..swallow, wild and riparie;..titmouse, great fennish, sylvatick, black, ceruleous. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxxiv. (1713) 271 Fauns and Satyrs and other Sylvatick Genii. Ibid. v. xxi. 474 How rough and unpolish'd, how rude and sylvatick the spirit of Elias will appear. 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxiv. xci, Concealed in the selvatick brake. 1814T. Haynes Treat. Strawberry, etc. (ed. 2) 5 note, Others assert the large Carolinian [strawberry] to be an inhabitant of sylvatic situations.
2. Med. Also (rare) selvatic. Applied to certain diseases (as rabies, yellow fever, plague, and Chagas's disease) when contracted by wild rather than domesticated animals, and to the pathogens causing them. [ad. F. selvatique (R. Jorge Les Rongeurs & leurs Puces dans la Propagation de la Peste (1928) ii. 36); cf. L. silvāticus wild.]
1931C. O. Stallybrass Princ. Epidemiol. ix. 310 In this way arise two types of epizoötic [plague]... One.. among wild rodents, spreading slowly from colony to colony, independent of man's lines of communication..; to this type of epizoötic Jorge (1928) has given the title selvatic plague. 1935Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 17 Aug. 535/2 The invasion of sylvatic plague among the ground squirrels of the foothills of the Sierras and Cascade Mountains creates a widening menace in the United States. 1936Wu Lien-Teh in Wu Lien-Teh et al. Plague vi. 195 Jorge..distinguished between the pandemic plague introduced..by..‘domestic’ rodents, and selvatic plague, dangerous to man only when he invades the remote endemic areas populated by wild rodents. 1970Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 35/1 There has been a steady and alarming increase in rabies in wild animals—so-called sylvatic rabies. 1978Nature 27 Apr. 820/1 We have identified distinct sylvatic and domestic strain-groups of T[rypanosoma] cruzi, apparently circulating independently and transmitted by different vector species.
So † sylˈvatical a. (obs. rare—0).
1656Blount Glossogr., Sylvatical. |