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Definition of: sylph
(silf) noun
1. Originally, in the system of Paracelsus, a being, male or female, mortal but without a soul, living in and on the air, and intermediate between material and immaterial beings.
2. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
3. A South American hummingbird (Cyanolesbia gorgo), with a long, forked, brilliantly colored tail. [<NL sylphes, pl.,? coined by Paracelsus]
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