| 单词 | seventeen-year locust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseventeen-year locust seventeen-year locust n. (also seventeen-years locust, †seventeen-years' locust) a periodical cicada; = seventeen-year cicada n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada) seventeen-year locust1817 seventeen-year cicada1830 periodical cicada1876 1817 Columbian Centinel (Boston, Mass.) 14 May 1/4 The southern papers have announced that the present is the year for the appearance of what is called..the Seventeen Years Locust... The insect lives above ground about two months, and 17 years in it. 1835 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania 19 Sept. 178/1 The twigs of different plants, which were punctured by the seventeen year Locust, last season, present now almost the same appearance as when the eggs were deposited in their nidus. 1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Aug. 3/1 The juice-sucking 17-year locusts—which are really cicadas—were also around. 2001 Independent 3 July 14/2 The song belongs to the Magicicada septendecim or Magicicada cassini, otherwise known as the periodical cicada or 17-year-locust. < as lemmas |
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