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say it: suh-KAY-duh
cicada is a noun meaning "stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone". It is pronounced /səˈkeɪdə/ — suh-KAY-duh. It carries one recorded sense.
stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cicada come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.