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seventeen-year locust

sev·en·teen-year lo·cust (plural sev·en·teen-year lo·custs)


noun 
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N American cicada: a cicada that spends most of its 17 years of life as an underground nymph, living as a winged adult for only a few weeks. Native to: eastern North America.  Latin name Magicicada septendec.

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