单词 | cigala |
释义 | cigalacigalen. = cicada n., cicala n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae cicada?a1475 cigala1484 bow-krickel1658 locust1709 harvest-fly1753 spit-insect1755 tettix1775 balm-cricket1783 cicala1821 tree-hopper1836 cicad1855 knife-grinder1859 scissors-grinder1875 jar-fly1880 squeaker1887 New Forest cicada1978 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii. 123 (heading) The xvij fable is of the Ant and of the sygale. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii. 123 This present fable, Of the sygalle, whiche in the wynter tyme..demaunded of the ant somme of her Corne for to ete. 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood iii. iv. 361 Like as the Athenians did weare Cigales on their shooes. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 77 Grashoppers, locusts, cigals, and such like flie-fowles. 1768 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 400 Constantly whining and droning and interrupting like a cigala in a sultry day in Italy. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 3 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 187 Still as we pass, from bush and briar, The shrill cigala strikes his lyre. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour II. xiii. 208 The shrill voice of the cigale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1484 |
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