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seventeen-year locust

(sev′ən tēn′yir′)

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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

See seventeen-year locust in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

See periodical cicada.

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