annual cicadas

A form of annual cicada — Any of various genera of cicadas that appear every summer (though with a life cycle typically spanning two to five years), distinguished from the periodical species that appear in large swarms every 13 or 17 years.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of annual cicada.
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