dog-day cicada

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   its distinctive song is heard during July and August

   Synonymsharvest fly

   Broadercicada

   Part ofTibicen

Questions about dog-day cicada

What does dog-day cicada mean?

dog-day cicada means "its distinctive song is heard during July and August".

What is another word for dog-day cicada?

Close synonyms include harvest fly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dog-day cicada a common word?

dog-day cicada is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.