| 释义 |
seventeen-year locust
noun
: a cicada (Magicicada septendecim) common in eastern parts of the United States that has in the north a life of seventeen years and in the south of thirteen years, remains nearly the whole of this time underground in the nymphal condition, and after emerging quickly attains the adult condition in which it lives only a few weeks while it lays its eggs in slits made in the twigs of trees |