Crossword clues for katydid
katydid
- Singing insect
- Late summer singer
- Grasshopper's cousin
- Large green long-horned grasshopper of North America
- Males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
- Green grasshopper (7)
- Long-horned grasshopper
- Logger's pair of wheels
- Grasshopper in bottom of net caught by a kiddy playing
- Bush cricket
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Katydid \Ka"ty*did`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect ( Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustid[ae], 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 combination Katy-did, whence the name.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.\n\n[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]
Wiktionary
n. A type of grasshopper, in the family Tettigoniidae.
WordNet
n. large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Wikipedia
Katydid is the common American name for insects of the family Tettigoniidae.
Katydid may also refer to:
- Katydids (band), an English pop and rock band
- USS Katydid (SP-95), a United States navy patrol boat
Usage examples of "katydid".
Meanwhile, the katydids went on caroling, and a covey of goldfinches fluttered into a patch of purple thistle, chattering companionably.
Cicadas were singing around them, trilling their mechanical trill, and if she listened intently, she could also hear crickets and katydids and, somewhere farther off, the baritone lullaby of frogs.
The air was tremulous with heavenly notes, the lights went out in the hall, dusk swept across the stage, a cricket sang and a katydid answered, and a wood pewee wrung the heart with its lonesome cry.
In the forest trees the jarflies and the tree-crickets and the katydids kept up their maddening chorus.
She looked around: a T in the road 3 dust settling behind her, brown-eyed Susans and skunk cabbage bobbing in the ditch, grasshoppers jumping and munching among the quack grass and dandelions around the car, wild mustard blooming tiredly in the dry-wash ditch and the incessant note of the katydids hidden in the weeds and grasses.
The stillness, the remoteness seemed magnified by the unchanging song of the katydids and the oppressive heat.
They went outdoors again, where the crickets and katydids were chirping in the grass, and the drowsy twitter of birds came from the maples above.
The house retains its evil reputation, but the replanted vine is as orderly and well-behaved a vegetable as a nervous person could wish to sit under of a pleasant night, when the katydids grate out their immemorial revelation and the distant whippoorwill signifies his notion of what ought to be done about it.
That evening, Grandpa and Grandma and the children sat on the porch, listening to the chirp of the katydids and the call of the whippoorwills.
But what I liked best was to sit out on the porch in the evenings, and listen to the katydids and whippoorwills, and watch the stars come out one by one.
Time for a replacement of both Behren and his dipterous insect, both of them with one arboreal, American orthopterous katydid.
The machine's slender body stood on oversized, jointed legs like those of a katydid or a cave cricket.