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Variant of cicada

cicada Definition

ci·cada (si kā′də, -kä′-)

noun pl. cicadas -·das or cicadae -·dae (-dē)

any of a family (Cicadidae) of large, flylike homopteran insects with transparent wings: the male makes a loud, shrill sound by vibrating a special organ on its undersurface

Etymology: ME < L

cicadae Quotes

This is the voice of high midsummer's heat. The rasping vibrant clamour soars and shrills O'er all the meadowy range of shadeless hills, As if a host of giant cicadae beat The cymbals of their wings with tireless feet, Or brazen grasshoppers with triumphing note From the long swath proclaimed the fate that smote The clover and timothy-tops and meadowsweet. —Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas

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