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单词 cicada
释义

cicada

/sɪˈkɑːdə /
noun
A large homopterous insect with long transparent wings, found chiefly in warm countries. The male cicada makes a loud, shrill droning noise by vibrating two membranes on its abdomen.
  • Family Cicadidae, suborder Homoptera: many genera.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies....
  • On land, an unseen cicada had begun its shrill noise.
  • But even over the noise, I could hear the monotonous drone of a cicada.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin cicada, cicala.

Rhymes

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