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sylph |silf|
noun
1 an imaginary spirit of the air.
• a slender woman or girl.
2 a mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail.
[Genus Aglaiocercus (and Neolesbia), family Trochilidae: three species.]
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin sylphes, sylphi and the German plural Sylphen, perhaps based on Latin sylvestris ‘of the woods’ + nympha ‘nymph.’ |
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