3. (Zoöl.) 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).
Sylph"id (?), n. [F. sylphide, fem. See Sylph.] A little sylph; a young
or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake.
Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies,
genii, elves, and demons, hear.
Pope.
Sylph"ine (?), a. Like a sylph.
Sylph"ish (?), a. Sylphlike. Carlyle.
Sylph"like` (?), a. Like a sylph; airy; graceful.
Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its
maze.
Byron.
||Syl"va (?), n.; pl. Sylvæ (#). [L. sylva, better silva, a wood. See
||Silva.] (Bot.) Same as Silva.
Syl"van (?), a. [See Silvan, a.] 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.