(a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
(a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
(a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of 87 opossums, Didelphis albiventris, captured in the Bambuí area (Minas Gerais State), 32 (36.7%) were found infected by Trypanosoma cruzi; the rates varied according to whether the specimens originated from sylvan, rural peridomiciliar or urban surroundings, being 34.9, 81.8 and 7.7 respectively.
(2) Age composition, seasonal abundance and diel patterns of landing activity of the sylvan vector of yellow fever Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar were monitored weekly during 1981-82 by human collectors on the ground at Point Gourde in Chaguaramas Forest, 16 km west of Port of Spain, Trinidad.
(3) The festival includes the British premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with Sanford Sylvan in the title role.
(4) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
(5) Shortly before Stephen Ward scored his first Premier League goal, Pepe Reina had , for reasons best known to himself, passed straight to Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
(6) These results indicated that there is a sylvan cycle which is maintained by mammal species, which are plundering this geographic area.
(7) All patients had encephalopathy and prior exposure to both a sylvan environment and flea-infested animals.
(8) Diel patterns of oviposition of sylvan Haemagogus equinus in the field in Trinidad, West Indies, were monitored weekly for 53 consecutive weeks using standard ovitraps.
(9) This article reports four observations of sexual criminals, sylvan and nocturnal rovers, with different personalities.
(10) It was a sylvan scene – a tent, a new wooden bench, a pile of neatly stacked logs, and the smell of dinner cooking on a fire.
(11) This note documents the first record of LAC antibodies in sylvan rodents from Indiana, the presence of LAC virus in the vicinity of Ae.
(12) The diel oviposition periodicity of sylvan Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar in the Pt.
(13) Phenomena associated with suburbanization, primarily the association of domestic and sylvan animals and their exposure to infected vector populations, may be instrumental in explaining the increased transmission of RMSF.
(14) The pattern of gene frequency variation suggests that these mosquito samples do not constitute a single panmictic population, but there are no large consistent differences between rock hole and domestic forms to parallel the East African sylvan-domestic dichotomy.
(15) The seasonal incidence and diel oviposition patterns of sylvan Haemagogus celeste and Hg.
(16) The potential public health importance of this sylvan disease in flying squirrels and in its ectoparasites, particularly the non-host specific, wide ranging squirrel flea, is noted.
(17) An ecological survey of triatomines in the sylvan ecosystem of the Canal Zone and selected sites in Panama disclosed for the first time a close association of Rhodnius pullescens and Triatoma dimidiata, the two most important vector species of Chagas' disease in Panama, with a single species of a widely distributed palm tree, Scheelea zonensis.
Woody
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
(3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
(6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
(7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
(10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
(11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
(12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
(13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
(14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
(15) Woody Allen's nakedly autobiographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
(16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
(17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
(18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
(19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
(20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.