cicala
noun
cicalas
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pluralof cicala.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From the trees, where the cicalas chirped, to the quiet stars there was nothing but signs and gestures, weeping and sighing.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
An orchestra, discreetly subdued but innumerable, of crickets and cicalas, accompanies them in an unceasing tremolo,—the immense far-reaching tremolo, which, gentle and eternal, never ceases on Japanese land.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti
I, with none beside, Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake, Still track your footprints 'neath the broiling sun.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
"But we do miss the lizards and the cicalas," they would say with a sigh.
From The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young
You mark that the sun is high, the heat intense, and the silence unbroken save by the cicalas among the olive-trees.
From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
