sylvatic
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sylvatic
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From Latin sylvāticus. See sylvan. Doublet of savage.
adjective silvatic
- Of or pertaining to woods or woodland organisms; sylvan Because arthropod-borne viruses, or arboviruses, can be spread by competent mosquito vectors across great distances, they pose substantial risk to other regions in which the disease is currently nonendemic. Zoonotic arboviruses circulate in sylvatic and peridomestic cycles involving wild animals and
- Of or pertaining to wild rather than domestic animals
- Of or pertaining to diseases or parasites borne or transmitted by sylvatic organisms Yellow fever has two transmission cycles, a sylvatic or jungle cycle and an urban cycle. The sylvatic cycle involving forest canopy mosquitoes as the vectors, and forest primates, mainly monkeys, as the hosts. The urban cycle involves Aedes aegypti as the vector and humans as the hosts. The urban cy
noun sylvatics · silvatic
- A wild animal
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