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词汇 cicada
释义 cicada
noun[ C ]
uk /sɪˈkɑː.də/ us /sɪˈkeɪ.də//sɪˈkɑː.də/pluralcicadas
a large insect found in warm countries that produces a high continuous sound蝉,知了
 
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Examples from literature

At the end of seventeen years the cicadas come up out of the earth in great swarms. 
Everywhere the cicadas kept the heat vibrating with their strident buzz. 
He has brought us the cast-off skin of a cicada to look at. 
In the South it takes only thirteen years for these cicadas to develop. 
The cicada sticks it into a leaf or young twig to suck out the juice. 

cicada | American Dictionary


cicada
noun[ C ]
us/səˈkeɪd·ə, -ˈkɑ·də/pluralcicadas
a large insect with transparent wings which it rubs together to produce a high, continuous sound esp. when the weather is hot:
Cicadas buzzing in the maple trees is the sound of hot summer.

Examples of cicada


cicada
The patterned data produced by reaction-diffusion systems is used to create a naturalistic soundscape in the piece cicada.
Each cicada either sings, chirps, clicks, or is silent depending on its environment and the weather conditions which are modelled by reaction-diffusion patterns.
The third level of the time tree structure is used to determine note and rhythmic durations of individual cicadas when they are active.
Loud though the cicadas may be, their occupancy of spectral space does not mask any of the other sounds.
Creating sustained tones with the cicada's rapid sequential buckling mechanism.
Values from each of the three levels are consulted to determine whether each cicada sings, chirps, or clicks, or whether it is inactive.
The next level of branches provides durational values for the series of episodes in which the aural behaviour of the cicadas is portrayed.
In some areas soil disturbance by emerging cicada larvae caused some seedling death.
Certain features of the cicadas' environment and behaviour are modelled in the composition, such as the warm weather required for them to sing.
He wanted just to listen to the concerto of the birds and the cicadas.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants.
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Red wattlebirds have been found to ignore the cicadas, possibly because their gapes are not wide enough to accommodate swallowing them whole.
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The sound of a creek running nearby, birds chirping, the regular hum of the cicadas.
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Many people around the world regularly eat cicadas.
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A number of cicadas have evolved this affinity for a single species of tree.
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