CICADIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cicadidae mean? 

• CICADIDAE (noun)
  The noun CICADIDAE has 1 sense:

1. cicadas

  Familiarity information: CICADIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CICADIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cicadas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cicadidae; family Cicadidae

Hypernyms ("Cicadidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Cicadidae"):

genus Cicada (type genus of the Cicadidae: cicadas)

cicada; cicala (stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone)

genus Tibicen; Tibicen (harvest flies)

genus Magicicada; Magicicada (seventeen-year locust)

Holonyms ("Cicadidae" is a member of...):

Homoptera; suborder Homoptera (plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects)