cicala
Americannoun
plural
cicalas,plural
cicalenoun
Etymology
Origin of cicala
< Italian < Latin cicāda cicada
Example Sentences
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A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
The blue campanula of the mountain in reverence bowed its head; the great white lily distilled incense from its deep heart; the cicala shrilled aloud; the Forsaken Bird gave a long note from the thicket.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
Till 1884 this was allowed to stand:— The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton
Thyrsis, let honey and the honeycomb Fill thy sweet mouth, and figs of Ægilus: For ne'er cicala trilled so sweet a song.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
He seemed to ask for nothing better than to stroll through orange groves, or lie under some spreading fig-tree, drowsily soothed by the song of the vine-dresser, or the unwearied chirp of the cicala.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
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