noun
stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
• Syn: ↑cicada
• Hypernyms: ↑homopterous insect, ↑homopteran
• Hyponyms: ↑dog-day cicada, ↑harvest fly, ↑seventeen-year locust, ↑periodical cicada, ↑Magicicada septendecim
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cicadidae, ↑family Cicadidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.