adj abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
2. sylvan ·adj of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
3. sylvan ·adj a fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
4. sylvan ·noun a liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood;
called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.