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cicada

[ si-key-duh, -kah- ]

noun

, plural ci·ca·das, ci·ca·dae [si-, key, -dee, -, kah, -].
  1. any large homopterous insect of the family Cicadidae, the male of which produces a shrill sound by means of vibrating membranes on the underside of the abdomen.


cicada

/ sɪˈkɑːdə /

noun

  1. any large broad insect of the homopterous family Cicadidae, most common in warm regions. Cicadas have membranous wings and the males produce a high-pitched drone by vibration of a pair of drumlike abdominal organs


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cicada1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cicāda

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cicada1

C19: from Latin

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Example Sentences

However, there have been instances in other areas where people complained of these itchy bites during periodic cicada emergences.

Should cicadas ever start interfering with each other like this, it wouldn’t surprise me if the brood cycles adapt over the course of the next million years or so.

As vaccination rates rise and the number of infections fall, like the Brood X cicadas, we are finally emerging from our homes and learning how to re-acclimate after 15 months of isolation, anxiety and loss.

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Unrated during the pandemicDowntown Washington feels buzzy again, and cicadas have nothing to do with it.

That means that, every 17 years, dog owners must add cicadas to the list of summertime pet hazards.

As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as “boiling out of the ground.”

The trees were fully green, and luscious fruits weighed down their branches, while over all was the drowsy hum of the cicada.

We see, in drawings emblematical of the musical art, a Cicada resting on strings of a cythera.

Nature has indemnified the female Cicada for this privation, by giving her an instrument less noisy indeed, but more useful.

M. Boyer managed thus to make a Cicada, which continued to sing as long as he whistled in harmony with it, settle on his nose.

But if one presents a stick to it, continuing to whistle, the Cicada settles on it and begins again to descend backwards.

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