Definitions for cicadas

cicadas ci·ca·da

Spelling: [si-key-duh, -kah-]
IPA: /sɪˈkeɪ də, -ˈkɑ-/

Cicadas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in cicadas (aaccdis).

Definitions for cicadas

noun

  1. any large homopterous insect of the family Cicadidae, the male of which produces a shrill sound by means of vibrating membranes on the underside of the abdomen.

Origin of cicadas

1350-1400; Middle English Latin cicāda

Examples for cicadas

Only in the trees is heard at intervals the whir of the cicada.

And that very day she declared war on the cicada and his kind.

I have alluded to the egg of the cicada "inserted in the bark of a twig."

As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as “boiling out of the ground.”

There are few other sounds, for it is winter, and the tree-frog and cicada are silent.

It is true, Zenothemis, that the soul is nourished on ecstasy, as the cicada is nourished on dew.

The creature most commonly called a locust is a cicada, or harvest fly.

The cicada, it will be remembered, is what is commonly called a locust.

It is not improbable that the sting was made by a wasp (Stizus) which preys on the cicada.

It is a specimen of game which I have just introduced, a cicada, a luscious morsel.

Word Value for cicadas
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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