katydid

 

Onomatopoeic, from the sound a common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia) makes by stridulating.^[1]

• katydid song:

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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katydid (plural katydids)

1. A relative of grasshoppers and crickets, in the family Tettigoniidae.

   Synonym: (UK) bush-cricket

   • 1889, Charles Conrad Abbott, Days Out of Doors, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 194:

     I have noticed all these, and some at a much earlier date than the first faint lisping of a timid katydid; and all such sights and sounds are similarly suggestive—the summer is drawing to its close.

   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 52:

     In the night the katydids and crickets screeched in waves, soft then loud, back and forth.

•   Tettigoniidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Tettigoniidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Category:Tettigoniidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons