seventeen-year locust
seventeen-year locust
Definition
☆ seventeen·-year· locust (sev′ən tēn′yir′)
noun
a cicada (Magicicada septendecim) which lives underground as a larva for from thirteen to seventeen years before emerging as an adult to live in the open for a brief period
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