Assertion: cicada | /r/CapableOf | begin life
Facets:
value: as eggs above ground
type: MANNER
value: hemiptera
type: LOCATION
value: as a nymph
type: MANNER
value: as a rice-shaped egg
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Cicadas begin life as a rice-shaped egg, which the female deposits in a groove she makes in a tree limb, using her ovipositor.
text: A cicada begins its life as a nymph living underground in the soil and feeding off the sap from roots of a plant using a long proboscis (a feature of all sap-sucking bugs – Hemiptera).
text: Cicadas start their lives as eggs above ground.