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Cicada

noun

(pl. E. cicadas, L. cicadae)

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

... appearing out of the black shadows and when looked for, noiselessly vanishing again in their mysterious ghost-like manner. Not a sound disturbed the silence except the faint, melancholy trill of one small night-singing cicada from somewhere near—a faint, aerial voice that seemed to be wandering lost in infinite space, rising and floating away in its loneliness, while earth listened, hushed into preternatural stillness. Presently a large owl came noiselessly flying by, and, perching on the topmost boughs of ...

— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson

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