silvestral
silvestral adjective: of or pertaining to a forest or wood.
Adjective
silvestral (comparative more silvestral, superlative most silvestral)
- Of or pertaining to a forest or wood.
- Dealing with the subject in a very able and interesting manner Mr Pettigrew grouped the British plants in the following way:—1st, rock plants; 2nd, marsh plants; 3rd, plants that love shade; 4th, silvestral plants; 5th, riparian plants; 6th, gregarious plants and a mixed race, detailing the natural...1899 February 27, The Bristol Mercury, volume CXXX, number 15,849, page 5
- Quite a considerable number of low-level Eur-Asian species have succeeded, partly with human assistance, in rounding the great mountain-masses on the west and north-west, and established themselves as components of a flora which is derived mainly from the south and the east; while the paucity of...1927, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, page 102
Examples of silvestral in a sentence
- But in the busy summer months of fields and pastures it is a farm woodlot which sees little of its owner, or, indeed, of any other two-legged silvestral traveler.1948 August 14, “The Summer Woodlot”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 72, number 22, Dayton, Ohio, page 4:
- It is interesting that the "vibratum ensem" to which Merlin refers in his warning (1. 380) is in practice "cornua cervo" (1. 467), rather appropriate to his silvestral life;1988, Carol E. Harding, Merlin and Legendary Romance, Garland, →ISBN, page 83:
Forms of silvestral
| comparative | more silvestral |
|---|---|
| superlative | most silvestral |
Origin of silvestral
From Latin silvestris + -al.
Questions about silvestral
- What does silvestral mean?
- Silvestral means of or pertaining to a forest or wood.
- How do you use silvestral in a sentence?
- But in the busy summer months of fields and pastures it is a farm woodlot which sees little of its owner, or, indeed, of any other two-legged silvestral traveler.
- What part of speech is silvestral?
- Silvestral is an adjective.
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