seventeen-year locust

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Juan uttered a series of extraordinary whoops, and working his legs like the long limbs of a seventeen-year locust, he dashed to the head of the procession.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Burnham, Margaret

If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

Dear Jack: The seventeen-year locust isn't a locust at all.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

Butterflies have been heard to utter a loud click, and the same is true of many beetles; while the cicada, or seventeen-year locust, utters a most remarkable note or series of sounds.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various