seventeen-year locust

Noun seventeen-year locust has 1 sense

• seventeen-year locust(n = noun.animal) magicicada septendecim, periodical cicada - North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature;
is a kind of cicada, cicala
is a member of genus magicicada, magicicada