Definition of katydid in English:
katydid
noun ˈkeɪtɪdɪdˈkeɪdiˌdɪd
A large, typically green, bush cricket that is native to North America. The male makes a characteristic sound which resembles the name.
Microcentrum and other genera, family Tettigoniidae
- It is a mournful silence, broken only by the eternal singing of the katydids.
- Short-winged female meadow katydids discriminate among tremulation signals of males to choose a larger male, even in the absence of a signalling male.
- From every quarter throbbed peepers and katydids and locusts.
- Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
- That winter, the night we built our first big fire, we also hatched out about a million katydids, or as some folk call them, camel crickets.
Definition of katydid in US English:
katydid
nounˈkādēˌdidˈkeɪdiˌdɪd
A large, typically green, long-horned grasshopper native to North America. The male makes a characteristic sound that resembles the name.
Microcentrum and other genera, family Tettigoniidae
- That winter, the night we built our first big fire, we also hatched out about a million katydids, or as some folk call them, camel crickets.
- Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
- From every quarter throbbed peepers and katydids and locusts.
- It is a mournful silence, broken only by the eternal singing of the katydids.
- Short-winged female meadow katydids discriminate among tremulation signals of males to choose a larger male, even in the absence of a signalling male.