cigalacigalen.
= cicada n., cicala n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae
cicada?a1475
cigala1484
bow-krickel1658
locust1709
harvest-fly1753
spit-insect1755
tettix1775
balm-cricket1783
cicala1821
tree-hopper1836
cicad1855
knife-grinder1859
scissors-grinder1875
jar-fly1880
squeaker1887
New Forest cicada1978
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii. 123 (heading) The xvij fable is of the Ant and of the sygale.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii. 123 This present fable, Of the sygalle, whiche in the wynter tyme..demaunded of the ant somme of her Corne for to ete.
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood iii. iv. 361 Like as the Athenians did weare Cigales on their shooes.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 77 Grashoppers, locusts, cigals, and such like flie-fowles.
1768 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 400 Constantly whining and droning and interrupting like a cigala in a sultry day in Italy.
1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 3 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 187 Still as we pass, from bush and briar, The shrill cigala strikes his lyre.
1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour II. xiii. 208 The shrill voice of the cigale.
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