Cicadae [noun]

The trees were fully green, and luscious fruits weighed down their branches, while over all was the drowsy hum of the cicada.

We see, in drawings emblematical of the musical art, a Cicada resting on strings of a cythera.

Nature has indemnified the female Cicada for this privation, by giving her an instrument less noisy indeed, but more useful.

M. Boyer managed thus to make a Cicada, which continued to sing as long as he whistled in harmony with it, settle on his nose.

But if one presents a stick to it, continuing to whistle, the Cicada settles on it and begins again to descend backwards.

The painter here represented the Cigale, or Cicada, under the form of a magnificent apple-green grasshopper.

We have said above that the female Cicada does not sing; and so her singing organs are quite rudimentary.

It is on these two species of Cicada that Raumur made the beautiful observations of which we gave a summary above.

There is a cicada which comes every year, and is also wrongly called a locust.

The coming of the swallow is scarcely more significant to Americans of the Southern states than the arrival of the cicada.