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Перевод: cicada

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цикада

Тезаурус:

1. For example, in a sample of 725 copulating pairs of two species of cicada, which are distinguishable but similar in appearance to the human eye, only seven contained members of two species; the other 718 were matings of the same species.
2. As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada - one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer's day.
3. The New Forest contains plant and animal species unique in Britain, including wild gladioli and New Forest cicada.
4. The various species of cicada differ in the length of the life cycle but, interestingly, the interval between egg and adult is always a prime number - 13 or 7 years.
5. It turns out that there is not just one 13-year cicada species and one 17-year species.
6. The new projects involve the fen violet, the New Forest cicada, the water beetle Graphoderis zonatus and threatened Breckland lichens.
7. They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers, for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song.
8. The practice of placing a jade representation of a cicada on the tongue of the deceased probably stemmed from a knowledge of the life history of this insect, which re-emerges after spending a period underground.
9. Even when active, a time interval does not seem the same to a cicada as to a ground squirrel or to ourselves.
10. There were two types of cicada: one of them fried, for consumption; and the other alive, for fighting.
11. I might even delve deeper into natural history and say, "The periodical cicada spends six years as a grub underground, and no more than six days as a free creature of sunlight and air.
12. Cicada plagues, which occur in any given area exactly 13 (or 17) years apart, are spectacular eruptions that have led to their incorrectly being called locusts in vernacular American speech.
13. The fen violet has been found at only two sites, and the New Forest cicada and the water beetle at only one each.