Definition of Family Cicadidae

1. Noun. Cicadas.

Exact synonyms: Cicadidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Homoptera, Suborder Homoptera
Member holonyms: Genus Cicada, Cicada, Cicala, Genus Tibicen, Tibicen, Genus Magicicada, Magicicada

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cicadidae

family Chelydridae
family Chenopodiaceae
family Chermidae
family Chimaeridae
family Chinchillidae
family Chironomidae
family Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydomonadaceae
family Chloranthaceae
family Chlorophthalmidae
family Chrysochloridae
family Chrysomelidae
family Chrysopidae
family Chytridiaceae
family Cicadellidae
family Cicadidae (current term)
family Cichlidae
family Cicindelidae
family Ciconiidae
family Cimicidae
family Cinclidae
family Cistaceae
family Cladoniaceae
family Clathraceae
family Clavariaceae
family Cleridae
family Clethraceae
family Clinidae
family Clupeidae
family Clusiaceae

Literary usage of Family Cicadidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The family Cicadidae is a group of large insects containing very many tropical species. Their bodies are large, with a wide, blunt head, and with prominent ..."

2. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Cicadidae (The Cicadas).—Most of the members of this family are rather large insects, with bodies often two or three inches or even more in length ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... animal kingdom are the "drums" at the base of the abdomen of the males of the "seventeen-year locust" and their relatives in the family Cicadidae. ..."

4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1903)
"Trans. Maryland acad. sci., 1892, vol. i, p. 147-175. 1892 37 Additions to the family Cicadidae. Trans. Maryland acad. sci., 1892, vol. i, p. 175-179. ..."

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