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Silphid vs Sylphid - What's the difference?

silphid | sylphid |

As nouns the difference between silphid and sylphid

is that silphid is any carrion beetle of the family silphidae while sylphid is (poetic) a young or little sylph.

silphid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any carrion beetle of the family Silphidae

    • sylphid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A young or little sylph.
    • The place of the sylphid queen. — J. R. Drake.
    Ye sylphs and sylphids , to your chief give ear. — Alexander Pope.
    (Webster 1913)