Assertion: cicada | /r/Synonym | locust
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: colloquially
type: MANNER
value: commonly
type: DEGREE
value: because of their tendency
type: CAUSE
value: in some areas
type: LOCATION
value: in australia
type: LOCATION
value: mistakenly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Cicadas are sometimes called locusts.
text: Cicadas are sometimes known as locusts in Australia, but that term is more correctly applied to certain migratory species of grasshopper.
text: Cicadas are commonly referred to as locusts which are technically grasshoppers.
text: In this case the bugs are cicadas, not the locusts that plagued ancient Egypt, but the winged insects – which emerge from the ground every 13 years to mate – have begun hatching from Mississippi to North Carolina.
text: Cicadas (order Homoptera) also may be called locusts, the 17-year “locust” being the 17-year periodic cicada.
text: The same can't be said of cicadas, which are commonly and mistakenly called locusts, too.
text: In some areas, cicadas are even known colloquially as locusts, or 13- or 17-year locusts.
text: Because of their tendency to appear in vast swarms, cicadas are often colloquially referred to as locusts, though locusts are technically a different species that also appears in epic proportions.