1. a large insect with transparent wings that makes a loud buzzing or clicking sound, especially in summer

Examples

• The cicadas were so loud we could barely hear each other talk.
• Every seventeen years, the periodical cicadas emerge from underground.
• She found an empty cicada shell clinging to the oak tree.
• The summer evening was filled with the drone of cicadas.
• Cicadas spend most of their lives underground as nymphs.
• The children collected cicada wings from the porch steps.