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n. - Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.

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  • And it resounded with the notes of the male Kokila and of the shrill cicala.
  • Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a...
  • The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear.
  • The rose-scented hush was torn by the strident, cicala-like shrilling of
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