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cicada

[si-kay-duh, -kah-] / sɪˈkeɪ də, -ˈkɑ- /
NOUN
locust
Synonyms
STRONGEST


NOUN
seventeen-year locust
Synonyms


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His organic forms, including a glowing cicada and whale lamp, fall between $2,000 and $4,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

In Costa Rica, a rufous-vented ground cuckoo snatches a cicada fleeing an army ant swarm.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

The bloody stain of the cicada on the artwork proves to be excellent foreshadowing of where the film is headed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Then there was the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a winner for “Appropriate,” rocking a cicada brooch tie, a nod to one of the production’s creepy-crawly motifs.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

He tumbled lifelessly through July, feeling as dry and empty as the cicada husks on the trees.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

It was in the month of August; and the whole countryside was ringing with the song of the cicadae.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall

Yet perhaps with sunflowers and cicadae, summer and winter, cattle, wife and family, the settler may create a full and various existence.

From Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever it appeared, moreover, the red-eyed cicadae were in abundance.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by John Lort Stokes

How delightful is the breeze:—so very sweet; and there is a sound in the air shrill and summerlike which makes answer to the chorus of the cicadae.

From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett

When we stop, which we do often, for emigrants and freight travel together, the kine first, the man after, the whole plain is heard singing with cicadae.

From The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls by Robert Louis Stevenson

There was the chirping of cicadas and the crunch of desiccated pine needles underfoot, but the most remarkable thing about the place was the quiet.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The goal was to reduce the impacts on residents, not totally eradicate the cicadas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

He said: "We went creeping around the grounds of this military base using ultrasound detectors to try to hear the male cicadas singing, so it did feel a bit James Bond."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some individuals compare the noise to cicadas or even a passing freight train, Price said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Just the cicadas and the birds and the flitting of dragonfly wings.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender




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