noun
Meaning 1
A cricket of the family Tettigoniidae
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bush-cricket, tettigoniid
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
katydid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/
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CMU ARPABET: K EY1 T IY0 D IH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
Narrower terms: mormon cricket, Anabrus simplex
History
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, from the sound a common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia) makes by stridulating. * katydid song: (file)
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جُخْدَب (juḵdab) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Arabic: جُخْدُب (juḵdub) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Arabic: حَرْجَل (ḥarjal) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Arabic: حَرْجُوَان (ḥarjuwān) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Armenian: ծղրիդ (cġrid) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Catalan: tetigònid — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Chinese Cantonese: 螽斯 (zung1 si1) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 螽斯 (zhōngsī) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Danish: løvgræshoppe — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Dutch: sabelsprinkhaan — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- French: sauterelle — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Galician: tettigónido — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Georgian: კუტკალია (ḳuṭḳalia) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- German: Laubheuschrecke — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Hungarian: fürgeszöcske — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Hungarian: szöcske — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Japanese: 螽蟖 (kirigirisu) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Korean: 여치 (yeochi) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Navajo: nahachagii dootłʼizhí — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Norwegian Bokmål: løvgresshoppe — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lauvgrashoppe — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Portuguese: tetigoniídeo — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Portuguese: esperança — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Russian: кузне́чик (kuznéčik) — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Spanish: saltamontes longicornio — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Spanish: esperanza — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Swedish: vårtbitare — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
- Unami: kshipskwès — orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae
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