Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various orthopteran insects of the family Tettigoniidae, having long antennae and usually a green body, the male of which produces a shrill sound by rubbing together specialized organs on the forewings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
logging-wheels . - noun An orthopterousinsect of the family Locustidœ of large size, green color, and arboreal habits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (
Cyrtophyllus concavus ) of the familyLocustidæ , common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combinationKaty-did , whence the name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
grasshopper , scientific name Tettigoniidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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First discovered back in 1887, the pink katydid is so rare that they occur once out of every 500 individuals.
Photos of the Very Rare and Very Pink Katydid | Impact Lab 2010
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The katydid is a grasshopper shaped insect that lives nearly everywhere in the world.
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The katydid is a grasshopper shaped insect that lives nearly everywhere in the world.
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The katydid is a grasshopper shaped insect that lives nearly everywhere in the world.
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The katydid is a grasshopper shaped insect that lives nearly everywhere in the world.
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SYDNEY (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in Papua New Guinea.
New Species Discovered: Conservation International Researchers Find Hundreds Of Undocumented Creatures In Papua New Guinea (PHOTOS) Travis Walter Donovan 2010
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Did you know that a katydid will eat his own back legs if you feed them to him feet first?
The obligatory ‘Jon Stewart smacking around Chris Matthews’ noon open thread. | RedState 2010
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What you are looking at is the very rare and very pink katydid.
Photos of the Very Rare and Very Pink Katydid | Impact Lab 2010
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In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
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SYDNEY (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in Papua New Guinea.
New Species Discovered: Conservation International Researchers Find Hundreds Of Undocumented Creatures In Papua New Guinea (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
dailyword commented on the word katydid
We had this insect in the car on the way to Ohio from Hersey, Pennsylvania.
September 3, 2012