katydid
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- noun
- /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/
- US
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katydid
- Outside it's perfectly quiet, no crickets, no katydids.
- crickets and katydids
- cicadas and katydids
- grasshoppers and katydids
Examples
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A rainforest katydid has ears that evolved to be remarkably like those of humans and other mammals.
Blog text (8) -
PHOTO: Grasping a katydid in his jaws, a male nursery web spider prepares to wrap his catch.
Academic text (1991) -
I like hearing the crickets and katydids.
Fiction book (1996) -
Among insects, katydids sense ultrasonic sounds with their front legs.
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In the silence, flies buzzed, mosquitoes hummed, and the katydids throbbed.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was not the chorus of the owls, the chafing of the katydids, the yelping of the wolverines, or the cry of any of the other forms of wildlife that had of late become so vociferous.
Fiction book (1997) -
While total levels of herbivory were reduced by the ants' low-key defense, some insects, such as katydids and adult beetles, were less susceptible to it, and these accounted for most of the 12 to 15 percent of leaf material eaten on ant-inhabited leaves.
Academic text (1993) -
They would pass underneath him, and then he would close his eyes and listen as the cupping sound of their hooves in the dirt grew fainter and fainter until it vanished into the calls of katydids and peepers.
Fiction book (1997) -
The song of millions of katydids punctuates the summer night.
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Afterward, I sat quietly on my deck, listening to the crickets and katydids and breathing in the night air.
Synonyms
A green insect like a large cricket with very long thin antennae
A grasshopper with very long feelers that makes sounds with its wings
How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word katydid comes from the insect's song because people thought its call sounded like the parts katy and did, heard as 'Katy did'. So katydid is the green insect named for the repeating 'Katy did' sound it makes at night.