SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST


Meaning of SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1817

: a cicada ( Magicicada septendecim ) of the United States that has in the North a life of seventeen years and in the South of thirteen years of which most is spent underground as a nymph and only a few weeks as a winged adult

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