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seventeen–year locust
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Definition of SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST
: a cicada (Magicicada septendecim) of the United States that has in the North a life of seventeen years and in the South of thirteen years of which most is spent underground as a nymph and only a few weeks as a winged adult
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First Known Use of SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST
1817
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