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Tettix

Tettix \Tet"tix\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a kind of grasshopper.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) The cicada. [Obs. or R.]

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small grasshoppers.

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tettix

n. A cicada, especially one in Greece.