Cicada Synonyms

sĭ-kādə, -kä-
Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cicala

Words Related to Cicada

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Cicada Sentence Examples

  • The cicada's song resounds among the woods in the autumn; flights of locusts frequently appear after the summer, and they are carried by the prevailing winds even among the glaciers and eternal snows.

  • In one of the best-known species, Cicada septemdecim, from North America, the life-cycle is said to extend over seventeen years.

  • He became thinner and thinner and smaller and smaller until he became a cicada.

  • The " song " of the male cicads is notorious and the structures by which it is produced have already been described (see also Cicada).

  • Particularly obtrusive is the cicada (semi), of which there are many species.