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Cicada

noun

(pl. E. cicadas, L. cicadae)

Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone. Synonym: cicala.

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... summons which bids the guests to enter. One by one they advance and take their places. In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,—a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all earthly things. The singing kettle, as it boils over the brazier, sounds like some cicada pouring forth his woes to departing summer. Soon the host enters the room. Each in turn is served with tea, and each in turn silently drains his cup, the host last of all. according to established etiquette, the chief guest now asks permission to examine the tea-equipage. Rikiu places the various ...

— The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura

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... son of Laomedon, who was wedded to Eos, who begged Zeus to confer on him immortality but forgot to beg for youth, so that his decrepitude in old age became a burden to him; he was changed into a cicada. ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

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Words linked to "Cicada" : Cicadidae, homopterous insect, seventeen-year locust, family Cicadidae, Magicicada septendecim, homopteran, harvest fly