katydid
pronunciation
How to pronounce katydid in British English:
UK ['keɪtɪdɪd]
How to pronounce katydid in American English:
US ['keɪtɪˌdɪd]
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- Noun:
- large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Word Origin
- katydid (n.)
- insect of the locust family (Microsentrum rhombifolium), 1784, American English (perhaps first used by John Bartram), imitative of the stridulous sound the male makes when it rubs its front wings together. The sound itself is more accurately transcribed from 1751 as catedidist. [T]heir noise is loud and incessant, one perpetually and regularly answering the other in notes exactly similar to the words Katy did, or Katy Katy did, repeated by one, and another immediately bawls out Katy didn't, or Katy Katy didn't. In this loud clamour they continue without ceasing until the fall of the leaf, when they totally disappear. [J.F.D. Smyth, "A Tour in the United States of America," 1784]
Example
- 1. A golden nephila spider has found a katydid in her web .
- 2. The structure of the cricket is similar to locust , katydid , grasshopper , etc.
- 3. The researchers are hoping to find evidence that the common true katydid , once plentiful in new york city but now rare , is still thriving in some regions of the city .
- 4. We see the mantis , grasshopper , locust , katydid , we can say structure is all t.
- 5. We see the mantis , grasshopper , locust , katydid , we can say structure is all the same .