Glasflügelzikade

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Etymology edit

Glas (glass) +‎ Flügel (wing) +‎ Zikade (cicada), so named after the transparent wings.

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Glasflügelzikade f (genitive Glasflügelzikade, plural Glasflügelzikaden)

  1. insect of the family Cixiidae
    • 2016, Rainer Schmidt, Im Himmel gibt es Coca-Cola[1], mareverlag, translation of Waiting for the Electricity by Christina Nichol, →ISBN:
      [] über das Sudden-Death-Syndrom, das die Schwarzeichen tötete, und die Glasflügelzikade, ein Insekt, das alle Winzer in der Weinregion im Norden fürchteten, weil es ihre 700 000-Liter-Jahresproduktion vernichten konnte.
      [] about black oak sudden death syndrome that was killing all the oak trees, and about the glassy winged sharpshooter—an insect that all the vineyard owners in the North were terrified would demolish their seventeen-million-gallon-a-year wine producing region.

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