sylvicoline

English

Etymology

From Latin sylva, silva (“forest”) + colere (“to inhabit”).

Adjective

sylvicoline (comparative more sylvicoline, superlative most sylvicoline)

1. (ornithology, obsolete) Of or relating to the Sylvicolinae or Sylvicolidae, former names for the family Parulidae, the New World warblers.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sylvicoline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)