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A cicada is an insect you often hear before you see. It lives in hot countries, has large clear wings, and the males make a high, long singing in the trees — in Taiwan, that is the sound of high summer. The insect sits on bark, often green or brown, with big eyes. People mix it up with crickets and , but a cicada is not a : fly in hungry clouds and eat crops; cicadas mostly sit and shout. In some parts of the United States a kind of cicada stays under the ground for many years and then comes up all at once. After they grow, they leave an empty shell stuck to a wall or a tree.
組成Borrowed from Latin cicāda, a name that copies the insect's song. It does not split into English pieces. Doublet of cicala.
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- cicalasame Latin cicāda; cicala is the rarer English form that came through Italian
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cicadanoun/sɪˈkeɪ.də/
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Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
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Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
- The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.
- Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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