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
A program led by the nonprofit Revive & Restore intends to engineer resistance to sylvatic plague into the genomes of endangered black-footed ferrets by adding genes that evolved in domestic ferrets.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021
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
But, by 1985 canine distemper decimated black-footed ferrets there and sylvatic plague killed most of the prairie dogs.
From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2015
In 1975 there were 20 reported cases of this "sylvatic" plague.
From Time Magazine Archive
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