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Adjective: sylphlike  'silf,lIk
  1. (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph
    "In those days she was the most ethereal thing you could imagine, and it was surprising that a creature so sylphlike should be capable of so much power";
    - sylphic

See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin

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sylva
sylvan
sylvanite
Sylvanus
Sylvester II
Sylvia communis
Sylvia curruca
Sylvia Plath
Sylvian aqueduct
Sylvian fissure