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Katydid   /kˈeɪtidˌɪd/   Listen
Katydid

noun
1.
Large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings.





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"Katydid" Quotes from Famous Books



... went to a show in the town hall tonight. it was a singing show called the haymakers. it was splendid. Mr. Gale got it up. they have been practising all winter. Alice Gewell was a dary maid and Charlie Lane was a katydid, and lots of others sung. it ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute
... so balmy and beautiful that after wandering about in the woods and fields all day, and watching the moon creep stealthily up the sky to view herself in the fountain, one felt a longing to make his bed on the fresh turf under the katydid's bower, and sleep there. Of course I don't mean the young and happy bridegroom. He never dreamed of being absent from his Alice; and he even felt quite jealous of her little sister Emma, who used ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various


Words linked to "Katydid" :   long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid, Microcentrum, genus Microcentrum, mormon cricket, Anabrus simplex


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