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Definition of Seventeen-year locust
1. Noun. North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature.
Generic synonyms: Cicada, Cicala
Group relationships: Genus Magicicada, Magicicada
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventeen-year Locust
Literary usage of Seventeen-year locust
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 (1901)
"This insect, commonly known as the periodical cicada or seventeen-year locust,
is taken here because it is the only species of the family whose life history ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... periodical cicada or seventeen-year locust, is taken here because it is the
only species of the family whose life history is thoroughly well understood. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"There is an annual Cicada which appears in dog-days, whose shrill note is quite
different from the seventeen-year locust. The notes of this last are not ..."
4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1855)
"... according to the best etymological authority, no such peculiar insect as
the "seventeen year locust" exists. Locusts are found in more or less abundance ..."
5. The Swiss Cross by Harlan Hoge Ballard, Agassiz Association (1887)
"The seventeen-year locust, or Cicada, passes nearly its entire life in the grub
state ; in other words, its life is its youth, as after it assumes the adult ..."
6. American Agriculturist (1848)
"DESTRUCTION OF FRUIT TREES BY THE seventeen-year locust. BY referring to the
March number of your journal for 1847, p. 86, you will find an account of my ..."
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