Fifty-six percent of voters support the birth control coverage benefit, including 53 percent of Catholic voters, and 62 percent of Catholics who identify themselves as independents, according to a new Public Policy Polling Poll.
For other uses, see Sylph (disambiguation). Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological spirit of the air. The term originates in the 16th century works of Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air.
1. (Microbiology) any spherical or nearly spherical bacterium, such as a staphylococcus. Compare bacillus 1, spirillum 1. 2. (Botany) the part of a fruit that contains one seed and separates from the whole fruit at maturity. 3. (Animals) any of the scale insects of the genus Coccus.