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seventeen-year locusts

seventeen-year locusts is the plural of seventeen-year locust.

Meaning of seventeen-year locust

Noun

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.

Questions about seventeen-year locusts

What is seventeen-year locusts the plural of?
Seventeen-year locusts is the plural of seventeen-year locust.

Words near seventeen-year locusts in the dictionary

  1. sevensomes
  2. Sevenstones
  3. seventeen
  4. seventeen hundred
  5. seventeen-year locust
  6. seventeen-year locusts
  7. seventeenfold
  8. seventeenish
  9. seventeenness
  10. seventeenpence
  11. seventeens

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