sylvan


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sylvan /ˈsɪlvən/ (also silvan)
adjective chiefly literary consisting of or associated with woods; wooded.

■ pleasantly rural.

– origin C16 (as noun denoting an inhabitant of the woods): from Fr. sylvain or L. Silvanus ‘woodland deity’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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