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Definition of Family Cicadidae
1. Noun. Cicadas.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Homoptera, Suborder Homoptera
Member holonyms: Genus Cicada, Cicada, Cicala, Genus Tibicen, Tibicen, Genus Magicicada, Magicicada
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cicadidae
Literary usage of Family Cicadidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The family Cicadidae is a group of large insects containing very many tropical
species. Their bodies are large, with a wide, blunt head, and with prominent ..."
2. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Cicadidae (The Cicadas).—Most of the members of this family are rather
large insects, with bodies often two or three inches or even more in length ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... animal kingdom are the "drums" at the base of the abdomen of the males of
the "seventeen-year locust" and their relatives in the family Cicadidae. ..."
4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1903)
"Trans. Maryland acad. sci., 1892, vol. i, p. 147-175. 1892 37 Additions to the
family Cicadidae. Trans. Maryland acad. sci., 1892, vol. i, p. 175-179. ..."
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