katydid

English

a great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima), a species of katydid

Etymology

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

• katydid song:

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

katydid (plural katydids)

1. (chiefly US) A cricket of the family Tettigoniidae

   Synonyms: (UK) bush-cricket, (Internet slang, humorous) buge, (scientific) tettigoniid

   • 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.

Derived terms

• angular-winged katydid
• false katydid (Phaneropterinae spp.)
• fork-tailed bush katydid
• juniper bush katydid
• leaf katydid (Phaneropterinae spp.)
• round-headed katydid (Phaneropterinae spp.)

Translations

orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae

• Armenian: ծղրիդ (hy) (cġrid)
• Catalan: tetigònid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 螽斯 (zung¹ si¹)

  Mandarin: 螽斯 (zh) (zhōngsī)

• Danish: løvgræshoppe c
• Dutch: sabelsprinkhaan (nl) m
• French: sauterelle (fr) f
• Galician: tettigónido m
• Georgian: კუტკალია (ḳuṭḳalia)
• German: Laubheuschrecke f
• Hungarian: fürgeszöcske, szöcske (hu)
• Japanese: 螽蟖 (ja) (kirigirisu)
• Korean: 여치 (yeochi)
• Navajo: nahachagii dootłʼizhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: løvgresshoppe f

  Nynorsk: lauvgrashoppe f

• Portuguese: tetigoniídeo m, esperança (pt) f
• Russian: кузне́чик (ru) m (kuznéčik)
• Spanish: saltamontes longicornio m, esperanza (es) f

See also

extant orders of insects in English

• jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
• cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
• beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
• earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
• flies, dipterans (Diptera)
• webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
• mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
• ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
• true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
• hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
• butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
• mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
• mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
• scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
• megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
• neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
• damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
• orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
• stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
• stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
• booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
• snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
• fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
• strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
• thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
• caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
• zorapterans (Zoraptera)
• silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)

Further reading

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