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Webster 1913 Edition
Cicada
Ci-ca′da
(sĭ-kā′dȧ)
, Noun.
pl. E.
Cicadas
(-dȧz)
, L. Cicadæ
(-dē)
. [L.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus
Cicada
or of the family Cicadidae
. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (Cicada septendecim
) is called the seventeen year locust
. Another common species is the dogday cicada
.
Syn. – cicala.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cicada
CICADA
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Cicada
Cicada
Translingual
Cicada orni
Cicada barbara
Proper noun
Cicada f
Translations
a family of insects
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Hypernyms
- (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia, Pterygota, Metapterygota, Neoptera, Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clades; Condylognatha - superorder; Hemiptera - order; Auchenorrhyncha - suborder; Cicadomorpha - infraorder; Cicadoidea - superfamily; Cicadidae - family; Cicadinae - subfamily; Cicadini - tribe; Cicadina - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Cicada orni - type species
cicada
cicada
English
An adult cicada
Noun
cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae)
- Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- The periodical cicada.
- 2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living, page 217:
- The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.
- 2013 May 16, Laura Kroon, “Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27”, in Hunterdon County Democrat:
- Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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Hyponyms
- (periodical cicada): seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada
Derived terms
- evening cicada
- hairy cicada
Translations
any of several insects of the order Hemiptera
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See also
Latin
Etymology
Probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.da/, [kɪˈkaː.da]
Noun
cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension
- cicada, tree-cricket
- vocative singular of cicāda
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cicāda | cicādae |
| genitive | cicādae | cicādārum |
| dative | cicādae | cicādīs |
| accusative | cicādam | cicādās |
| ablative | cicādā | cicādīs |
| vocative | cicāda | cicādae |
Descendants
Pronunciation 2
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.daː/, [kɪˈkaː.daː]
Noun
cicādā
- ablative singular of cicāda
References
- cicada in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cicada in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CICADA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cicada”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- cicada in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers