resh cicada
English
Etymology
From resh + cicada, a partial calque of translingual Megatibicen resh. From a character, either Aramaic 𐡓 (r), Hebrew ר (r) or Arabic ر (r), named resh, which resembles patterns commonly found on the thoraxes of members of this species.
Noun
resh cicada (plural resh cicadas)
- Megatibicen resh, a species of cicada found most commonly in Texas.
- Synonym: western dusk singing cicada
Coordinate terms
Megatibicen species
- Megatibicen auletes: giant oak cicada, northern dusk-singing cicada, southern oak cicada
- Megatibicen cultriformis: grand western flood-plain cicada
- Megatibicen dealbatus: plains cicada
- Megatibicen dorsatus: bush cicada, giant grassland cicada
- Megatibicen figuratus: fall southeastern dusk-singing cicada
- Megatibicen pronotalis: Walker's cicada
- Megatibicen resonans: resonant cicada, southern pine barrens cicada
- Megatibicen tremulus: Cole's bush cicada, western bush cicada