单词 | sylvatic |
释义 | sylvaticsilvaticadj. 1. Belonging to or found in woods; of the nature of a wood or woodland; sylvan; †transferred rustic, boorish (obsolete). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic churlisha1000 upland14.. rustical?a1475 ruric1488 rusticate?a1505 rural1513 upalands1535 clownish1570 rustic1582 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 swainish1642 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 Corydonical1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 farmerly1689 peasant1702 soil-bound1814 farmerish1835 farmery1862 corn-pone1919 swede-bashing1936 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] churlisha1000 ruric1488 rural1513 rusticalc1525 peasant1550 peasantly1569 clownish1570 rustic1576 shepherdly1579 russet1598 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 high-shoon1654 Corydonical1656 high-shod1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 russet-coated1683 one-gallus1881 one-gallused1887 red-necked1896 rube1898 takhaar1899 backwoodsya1910 swede-bashing1936 backwoodish1946 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > belonging to, characteristic of, or resembling sylvester1578 sylvana1586 woodish1588 woody1590 wooden1606 sylvestrial1607 sylvestric1623 sylvestrous1653 sylvatical1656 sylvestrious1656 sylvestrian1657 sylvatic1661 forestish1815 sylvestral1858 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5v Insectivorous,..and..not melodious; as the..swallow, wild and riparie;..titmouse, great fennish, sylvatick, black, ceruleous. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxxiv. 271 Fauns and Satyrs and other Sylvatick Genii. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) v. xxi. 474 How rough and unpolish'd, how rude and sylvatick the spirit of Elias will appear. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xxiv. xci Concealed in the selvatick brake. 1814 T. Haynes Treat. Strawberry (ed. 2) 5 (note) Others assert the large Carolinian [strawberry] to be an inhabitant of sylvatic situations. 2. Medicine. 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. [ < French selvatique (R. Jorge Les Rongeurs & leurs Puces dans la Propagation de la Peste (1928) ii. 36); compare Latin silvāticus wild.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > [adjective] > of wild animals sylvatic1931 1931 C. 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. 1935 Jrnl. 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. 1936 Wu 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. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 35/1 There has been a steady and alarming increase in rabies in wild animals—so-called sylvatic rabies. 1978 Nature 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > belonging to, characteristic of, or resembling sylvester1578 sylvana1586 woodish1588 woody1590 wooden1606 sylvestrial1607 sylvestric1623 sylvestrous1653 sylvatical1656 sylvestrious1656 sylvestrian1657 sylvatic1661 forestish1815 sylvestral1858 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sylvatical. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1656 |
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