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cicala

[si-kah-luh, chee-kah-lah] / sɪˈkɑ lə, tʃiˈkɑ lɑ /
NOUN
seventeen-year locust
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Till 1884 this was allowed to stand:—   The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,   Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

Thyrsis, let honey and the honeycomb Fill thy sweet mouth, and figs of Ægilus: For ne'er cicala trilled so sweet a song.

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

A cicala in the grass outside began his evening note of challenge.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.