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Cicada   /səkˈeɪdə/   Listen
Cicada

noun
(pl. E. cicadas, L. cicadae)
1.
Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone.  Synonym: cicala.



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"Cicada" Quotes from Famous Books



... silence wide around, Broke only by the unvaried torrent's sound, Or prayer-bell by the dull cicada drown'd. 1820. ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... an insult, he thought bitterly. Again he stared out to sea, straining his eyes; trying vainly to pick up the yacht's lights far down the bay. It was very still, a tiny breeze whispered in the pines and drifted across his face the sweet perfume of a flowering shrub. A cicada chirped in ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull


Words linked to "Cicada" :   homopteran, periodical cicada, seventeen-year locust, harvest fly, family Cicadidae, Cicadidae, cicada killer, homopterous insect


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