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Definition of Cicadas
1. cicada [n] - See also: cicada
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cicadas
Literary usage of Cicadas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"Bradford's account was probably the source for a 1669 description of cicadas.1 The
Reverend Andreas Sandel was the first to document periodical cicadas in ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Their bodies are large, with a wide, blunt head, and with prominent eyes on the
outer Fig. 123.—Twigs punctured by cicadas, illustrating manner of breaking. ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"At the last ecdysis the wings assume the normal position. The cicadas.—In the
cicadas there exists a greater difference between the ..."
4. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1921)
"A great many cicadas emerged every evening, as May 22 and 23, ... Coming to these
upright but slender grass stalks the cicadas all mounted up and there ..."
5. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"These insects have a slender, horny beak, which, when not in use, is bent under
the body and lies upon the breast. cicadas, OB HARVEST FLIES. ..."
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