(n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.
Example Sentences:
(1) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
(2) I believed my presence would prevent something,” he says softly, his voice almost drowned by the hum of cicadas.
(3) The water-extract of whole Periostracum Cicadae (PCws) had anticonvulsive, sedative and hypothermic effects in rats.
(4) Peaks corresponding to syn 9-cis and 13-cis 3-hydroxyretinal oximes were observed on the chromatogram of extracts from fly heads and compound eyes of cicadas.
(5) The sound of absence is deafening: like white noise, a droning, gentle at first, then louder like the song of the cicadas as dusk turns into darkness.
(6) The only sound is the chirping of late-summer cicadas and the occasional beep of a Geiger counter.
(7) It will not make itself known until spring and summer, when the cicadas – another symbol of this picturesque region of southern France – are ready to emerge from the sun-warmed earth.
(8) Balanced solutions, in which comparable emergences occur each year, are found for insects having sufficiently short life-spans, such as 3-, 4-, and 7-year cicadas.
(9) A curious cicada in north America turns out to have been the first species to embark on an exploration of these numbers.
(10) In each was a cicada, chirruping loudly and uselessly to another, destined to spend its short time in an apartment as a rural soundtrack to an urban life.
(11) The insect group which includes cicadas harbours intracellular bacterial symbionts which are passed on from generation to generation in the form of a 'symbiont ball' inserted between the egg membrane and the rear pole of the egg cell.
(12) Larger amounts of the alcohols than the aldehydes were found in the compound eyes of butterflies, hornets, cicadas and grasshoppers, which are diurnal insects.
(13) Biological activities of two galactomannans (CI-P and CI-A) isolated from the insectbody portion of Chán hua (fungus: Cordyceps cicadae) were studied.
(14) Yellow jacket wasp larvae are big in Japan, cicadas are treasured in Malawi, and weaver ants are popular in Thailand Laura D’Asaro’s first brush with entomophagy came in Tanzania.
(15) Mitochondria from the flight muscle of the periodical cicada oxidize pyruvate and d-glycerol 1-phosphate at rates comparable with those obtained with flight-muscle mitochondria from other insects.
(16) Hundreds of thousands of cicada larvae will not only have devastated the plants' roots, but the adult insects will also transmit a fatal micro-bacterium that will make the plants slowly wither and die.
(17) In the laboratory, weight (water) loss is faster at higher (46 degrees C) than at lower (43 degrees C) temperatures; the cicadas were able to survive mass losses of 25% in the laboratory.
(18) The two main species intermingled in a brood of the 17-year cicada (Magicicada) have distinctive sound-making patterns and correspondingly different hearing abilities.
(19) They are modest but spacious, with gardens front and back, plenty of squirrels and a constant buzz from cicadas.
(20) Drosophila fasciculisetae's song resembles a cicada's more than a fly's song.
Cricket
Definition:
(n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
(n.) A low stool.
(n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
(n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
(v. i.) To play at cricket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(2) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
(3) Adult crickets have stereotyped patterns of motor output which are generated by the central nervous system, and which serve as a standard against which emerging nymphal patterns can be measured.
(4) Therefore, in the cricket cercal sensory system, both regeneration of the central synapses following axotomy of the presynaptic sensory neurons and the normal rearrangement of connectivity during larval development appear not to require axonal action potentials.
(5) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(6) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
(7) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(8) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
(9) During cricket movement, the chameleon locked both eyes straight forward in their orbits and followed the cricket movement with a visually guided head movement.
(10) Andrew Strauss accepted the award for team of the year on behalf of the England cricket team while a moving tribute to Seve Ballesteros - presented the lifetime achievement award by José María Olazábal - was streamed live from Spain.
(11) And, yes, one MEP’s pre-political career is listed as “county cricketer”.
(12) The ultrasound-induced negative phonotactic response of tethered, flying Australian field crickets habituates to repeated stimuli.
(13) "The cricketers are very strong in Britain, the footballers are great athletes.
(14) "Lunch was great, cricket was nice, it was a very English scene.
(15) Four cases of significant ocular trauma in indoor cricketers are reported.
(16) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
(17) Application of juvenile hormone analogue (ZR-515) prevented the effect of benserazid on the gonads of the crickets.
(18) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(19) In the presence of 0.02 M streptomycin, all of the polysomes precipitate from male cricket (Acheta domesticus) accessory gland and chick embryonic tissue post-mitochondrial fractions.
(20) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.