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Definition: Cicada |
CicadaNoun1. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cicada" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Cicada \Ci*ca"da\ (s[i^]*k[=a]"d[.a]), noun; plural English Cicadas(-d[.a]z), Latin Cicad[ae](-d[=e]). [Latin]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cicada is any of several insects of the order Homoptera with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
Male cicadas have loud noisemakers called "tymbals" on their sides. They modulate their noise by wiggling their abdomens toward and away from the tree that they are on. The best-known genus is Magicicada, the so-called "seventeen-year locust" (not a locust at all; locusts belong to Orthoptera) or periodical cicada. These cicadas spend thirteen or seventeen years in the ground, then emerge.
Periodical cicadas are grouped into thirty broods, based on the year they emerge. Broods I-XVII are the seventeen-year cicadas; Broods XVIII-XXX are the thirteen-year cicadas. Some broods are not known to exist, but they are retained in the numbering scheme for convenience. Brood IX emerged in 2003. The next thirteen-year brood to emerge will be Brood XIX in 2011.
External links
- Periodical Cicada - Virginia Tech
- Periodical Cicada Brood V - USDA
- Periodical Cicada Page - Univ. of Michigan
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cicada."
Synonym: CicadaSynonym: cicala (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cicada |
| English words defined with "cicada": Balm cricket ♦ Cicadae, Cicadas ♦ family Stizidae ♦ genus Sphecius ♦ harvest fly ♦ Lyerman ♦ Magicicada septendecim ♦ periodical cicada ♦ seventeen-year locust, Sphecius, Stizidae ♦ Tettix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cicada": Cuckoo-Spit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cicada": Cicala. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cicada. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cicada" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A dead cicada bug that has dropped from a tree to the ground. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ." |
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 | Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime; chirp; droning; humming; intensifying; growing; increasing . | | Cricket; crickets; droning; drone; dusk; nightfall; cicada; cicadae; chirping; chirp. |
| Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime. | | Cricket; crickets; droning; drone; dusk; nightfall; cicada; cicadae. |
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| "Cicada" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cicada" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cicada": cicada killer ♦ Cicada pruinosa ♦ cicada septendecim ♦ Dogday cicada ♦ genus Cicada ♦ periodical cicada. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cicada | 427 | angeles cicada los restaurant | 5 |
cicada killer | 36 | cicada sound | 4 |
cicada insect | 33 | cicada fly pattern | 4 |
cicada killer wasp | 25 | cicada illinois | 4 |
17 cicada year | 21 | cicada pattern | 3 |
cicada restaurant | 17 | cicada ring | 3 |
cicada picture | 13 | 13 cicada year | 3 |
cicada periodical | 11 | cicada rancho | 3 |
bug cicada | 11 | cicada seattle | 3 |
cicada magazine | 10 | cicada cycle | 2 |
cicada locust | 7 | cicada french | 2 |
angeles cicada los | 6 | cicada insect picture | 2 |
cicada semiconductor | 6 | bridal cicada | 2 |
cicada cycle life | 5 | chicago cicada | 2 |
cicada wasp | 5 | cicada fly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cicada"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjinkallë (locust). (various references) | |
Arabic | زيز الحصاد, الزيز. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цикада. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蟬 , 蜩 , 蝉 (Cicadas). (various references) | |
Czech | cikáda. (various references) | |
Farsi | زنجره وجیرجیرک دشتی , خزوک . (various references) | |
French | cigale (Cigale). (various references) | |
German | zikade. (various references) | |
Greek | τέττιξ, τζιτζίκι (dragonet), τζίτζικασ (harvest fly), τζίτζικας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ציקדה, צרצר (cricket). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kabóca (cicadae, cicala, cicalae). (various references) | |
Italian | cicala (balm-cricket). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蝉 (locust), 空蝉 (cast-off cicada shell, man of this world, the real world). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うつせみ (cast-off cicada shell, man of this world, the real world), せみ (locust). (various references) | |
Korean | 매미 (Cicadas). (various references) | |
Manx | piobeyr freoaie, chicada. (various references) | |
Maya | chochliin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icadacay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cigarra (buzzer, grig). (various references) | |
Romanian | greier (grig, locust). (various references) | |
Russian | цикада (balm-cricket). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cvrčak (chirruper, cricket, grig), cikada. (various references) | |
Spanish | cigarra. (various references) | |
Swedish | cikada. (various references) | |
Turkish | orakböceği (cicala, field cricket), ağustosböceği (chatterbox, cicala). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цикада (balm-cricket, bruke). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cicada": cicadae, cicadas. (additional references) | |
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"Cicada" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cacad, Cacxatg, Cavada, cccdna, Cebado, cecada, ciad, cica, Cifad, Cioaba, Circaea, Civardi, ctcatga, Cuidado, iccat, Kiganda, Micadia, Picarda, Picidae, Riscada, Sajadah, Secada, Shihada, Sicad, Siccama. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cicada" (pronounced sukā"du) |
| 3 | -ā" d u | reseda, Zenaida. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i" | |
-2 letters: acid, caca, cadi, caid. | |
-3 letters: aid, cad. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ai, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i" | |
+1 letter: accidia, cardiac, cicadae, cicadas. | |
+2 letters: academic, accidias, cardiacs, characid, saccadic. | |
+3 letters: academics, acaricide, acclaimed, cadaveric, candidacy, cascading, characids, circadian. | |
+4 letters: academical, acaricidal, acaricides, accidental, acclimated, advocacies, didactical, noncardiac, saccharide, unacademic, vaccinated. | |
+5 letters: academician, academicism, accidentals, accompanied, adjacencies, anecdotical, cachinnated, calendrical, candidacies, capacitated, caricatured, chancroidal, cocaptained, cyclopaedia, diacritical, dialectical, nonacademic, pickabacked, saccharides, tachycardia. | |
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