noun
- 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.