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gentrice (iou) and Sylvan (medicine)


gentrice (iou)



gentrice noun. obsolete exc. Scot. ME.
[Old French genterise var. of gentelise, from gentil GENTLE adjective + -ise -ICE1.]
Superiority of birth or rank. ME.
Good breeding. Formerly, graciousness, magnanimity, etc. ME.
People of good birth or rank. LME.

Sylvan (medicine)


sylvan


1. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. "The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . Is usually exact as well as tenacious." (De Quincey)

2. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.

See: Silvan.

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. "Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied." (Pope)

Origin: L. Sylvanus, better Silvanus. See Silvan.

<chemistry> A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood.

Synonym: methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

Origin: Sylva + furfuran.

Source: Websters Dictionary