pennsylvania | (n) a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies, Syn. PA, Keystone State |
pennsylvania | (n) one of the British colonies that formed the United States |
pennsylvania dutch | (n) a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland |
pennsylvanian | (n) from 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land, Syn. Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous period, Upper Carboniferous |
pennsylvanian | (n) a native or resident of Pennsylvania, Syn. Keystone Stater |
spotsylvania | (n) a village in northeastern Virginia where battles were fought during the American Civil War |
spotsylvania | (n) a battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign, Syn. battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse |
sylvan | (n) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods, Syn. silvan |
sylvan | (adj) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions, Syn. silvan |
sylvanite | (n) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America, Syn. graphic tellurium |
sylvanus | (n) (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart, Syn. Silvanus |
transylvania | (n) a historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country by the Transylvanian Alps; originally part of Hungary; incorporated into Romania at the end of World War I |
transylvanian alps | (n) a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania |
university of pennsylvania | (n) a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Syn. Pennsylvania, Penn |
barbary ape | (n) tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar, Syn. Macaca sylvana |
bayberry | (n) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries, Syn. waxberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
green ash | (n) a variety of red ash having glossy branchlets and lower leaf surfaces, Syn. Fraxinus pennsylvanica subintegerrima |
harrisburg | (n) capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state, Syn. capital of Pennsylvania |
low-bush blueberry | (n) low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries, Syn. low blueberry, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, Vaccinium angustifolium |
moosewood | (n) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn, Syn. moose-wood, goosefoot maple, striped maple, striped dogwood, Acer pennsylvanicum |
pin cherry | (n) small shrubby North American wild cherry with small bright red acid fruit, Syn. Prunus pensylvanica |
red ash | (n) smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces, Syn. Fraxinus pennsylvanica, downy ash |
Macaca sylvana | n. The Barbary ape, a tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of Northwest Africa and Gibralter. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
Pennsylvanian | prop. n. The geological period from 280 million to 310 million years ago; -- it was characterized by a warm climate and abundance of swampy land. Syn. -- Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period. [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. A resident of the state of Pennsylvania. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
Sylvan | a. [ See Silvan, a. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. [ 1913 Webster ] The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sylvan | n. [ L. Sylvanus, better Silvanus. See Silvan, a. ] A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. [ 1913 Webster ] Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sylvan | n. [ Sylva + furfuran. ] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sylvanite | n. [ Fr. Transylvania, where first found. ] (Min.) A telluride of gold and silver, (Au, Ag)Te2, of a steel gray, silver white, or brass yellow. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. H., 1.5-2. Sp.gr., 7.9-8.3. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
Sylvanium | n. [ NL., so called from Transylvania, where it was first found. ] (Chem.) An old name for tellurium. [ Written also silvanium. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
费城 | [Fèi chéng, ㄈㄟˋ ㄔㄥˊ, 费 城 / 費 城] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania #24,974 [Add to Longdo] |
宾夕法尼亚州 | [Bīn xī fǎ ní yà zhōu, ㄅㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ ㄈㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ ㄓㄡ, 宾 夕 法 尼 亚 州 / 賓 夕 法 尼 亞 州] Pennsylvania #52,914 [Add to Longdo] |
匹兹堡 | [Pǐ zī bǎo, ㄆㄧˇ ㄗ ㄅㄠˇ, 匹 兹 堡 / 匹 茲 堡] Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) #67,841 [Add to Longdo] |
宾州 | [Bīn zhōu, ㄅㄧㄣ ㄓㄡ, 宾 州 / 賓 州] Pennsylvania; abbr. for 賓西法尼亞|宾西法尼亚州 #72,540 [Add to Longdo] |
宾夕法尼亚 | [Bīn xī fǎ ní yà, ㄅㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ ㄈㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ, 宾 夕 法 尼 亚 / 賓 夕 法 尼 亞] Pennsylvania #78,123 [Add to Longdo] |
宾夕法尼亚大学 | [Bīn xī fǎ ní yà Dà xué, ㄅㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ ㄈㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄩㄝˊ, 宾 夕 法 尼 亚 大 学 / 賓 夕 法 尼 亞 大 學] University of Pennsylvania #88,847 [Add to Longdo] |
宾西法尼亚 | [bīn xī fǎ ní yà, ㄅㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ ㄈㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ, 宾 西 法 尼 亚 / 賓 西 法 尼 亞] Pennsylvania #334,822 [Add to Longdo] |
哈里斯堡 | [Hā lǐ sī bǎo, ㄏㄚ ㄌㄧˇ ㄙ ㄅㄠˇ, 哈 里 斯 堡 / 哈 裡 斯 堡] Harrisburg, Pennsylvania #922,074 [Add to Longdo] |