seventeen-year locust

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seventeen-year locust (plural seventeen-year locusts)

  1. Certain periodical cicadas, of genus Magicauda, a brood of which was to emerge in the US in 2024, together with a brood of thirteen-year cicadas, such co-emergence occurring only once in more than 200 years.

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