See Also: sylph(medicine)
sylph(dictionary)
sylph(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
medicine(2)(dictionary)
medicine(encyclopedia)
medicine man(encyclopedia)
medicine(dictionary)

sylph (medicine)


sylph


1. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

2. A slender, graceful woman.

3. <ornithology> Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

Origin: F. Sylphe, m, fr. Gr. A kind of grub, beetle, or moth; so called by Paracelsus.

Source: Websters Dictionary