Definition of sylvan

• a. - Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
• a. - Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
• a. - A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
• n. - A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.