Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of homopterous insects, of the family Cicadidæ, containing such species as the tropical American F. mannifera, famous for the loudness of its shrilling, whence the name.
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"(_The deluded Periphanes has just discovered that the fidicina is an impostor and not his daughter.
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