sylvatic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sylvatic
1650–60; < Latin silvāticus, equivalent to silv ( a ) silva + -āticus ( see -ate 1, -ic)
Example Sentences
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Hurried back to the “hospital trailer,” the animal was sedated and vaccinated against sylvatic plague carried by their favorite prey, work done in partnership with World Wildlife Fund.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Miners and loggers, some with fake immunization cards, jet between sylvatic regions and cities in just hours, potentially transferring the virus to new areas.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 17, 2017
Along with development that causes prairie dogs to scatter, the sylvatic plague, which caused the bubonic plague in humans, wiped out entire prairie dog populations and spread to ferrets.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2017
Rodents such as prairie dogs love peanut butter and black-footed ferrets love prairie dogs, so a peanut butter-like substance has been doctored with an oral vaccine to thwart sylvatic plague.
From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2015
To the despair of many doctors, the disease is commonly known in the West by the misleading euphemism of "sylvatic plague."
From Time Magazine Archive
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