Obs. rare. [ad. L. sil-, sylvester, -tris, f. silva, SYLVA.] = SYLVESTRIAN a.1 So Sylvestral a. Bot., growing in woods or woodland places; of a type found in woods; † Sylvestrial, † Sylvestric, † Sylvestrious, † Sylvestrous adjs. = SYLVESTRIAN a.1
1578. T. N., trans. Conq. W. India (1596), 378. They did maintaine themselves with rootes, hearbes, and *silvester frutes.
1720–1. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), II. 169. One Time a mighty Plague did pester All Beasts Domestick and Sylvester.
1858. Irvine, Hand-bk. Brit. Plants, 80. *Sylvestral plants … grow chiefly in woods; but some … also in hedges, and more in bushy places.
1863. J. G. Baker, N. Yorksh., 181. Aboriginal species characteristically paludal, uliginal, ericetal, and sylvestral.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 630. All wilde *siluestriall beastes are dryer then the tame, modern, and domesticall.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iii. 64. It [sc. the pheasant] may of all syluestriall Fowle, well challenge the first place at tables.
1623. Cockeram, I. *Syluestrick, wilde, rusticall.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sylvestrick, *Sylvestrious … of Wood or Forest, full of Trees or Wood, woody.
1653. R. Mason, in Bulwer, Anthropomet., Lett. to Author **4. The ruder crouds and *silvestrous heards of mankinde.
