sb. (a.) Ornith. [f. mod.L. Sylviadæ, variant form for Sylviidæ, f. Sylvia, name of the typical genus: see -ID3, and cf. -AD 1 b.] A bird of the family Sylviadæ (Sylviidæ); a warbler. Also attrib. or as adj.
1867. Ibis, Jan., 73. If we cast our eye down the catalogue, we find sixty-one species of the Sylviads enumerated. Ibid., 74. There are two very distinct tides of Sylviad immigration in Palestine.
