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Cicala

noun

(pl. cicale, cicalas)

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

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"Cicala" Quotes from Famous Books

... mandolin, also ready for departure, lies on the top of the pile in its case of figured silk. It resembles the flitting of some gipsy, or rather it reminds me of an engraving in a book of fables I owned in my childhood: the whole thing is exactly like the slender wardrobe and the long guitar which the cicala who had sung all the summer, carried upon her back when she knocked at the door of her ...

— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti

... let the sun shine! Wherefore repine? —With thee to lead me, O Day of mine, Down the grass path grey with dew, Under the pine-wood, blind with boughs, Where the swallow never flew Nor yet cicala dared ...

— How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions • S. S. Curry

... may thy fair mouth be with honey, Thyrsis, and filled with the honeycomb; and the sweet dried fig mayst thou eat of Aegilus, for thou vanquishest the cicala in song! Lo here is thy cup, see, my friend, of how pleasant a savour! Thou wilt think it has been dipped in the well-spring of the Hours. Hither, hither, Cissaetha: do thou milk her, Thyrsis. And you young she-goats, wanton not ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Cicala" : periodical cicada, cicada, homopteran, seventeen-year locust, harvest fly, Magicicada septendecim, family Cicadidae, dog-day cicada, Cicadidae, homopterous insect