katydid

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English

A great green bush-cricket (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), a species of katydid

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from the sound one species makes by stridulating.^[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

katydid (plural katydids)

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

Synonyms

(UK): bush-cricket

Translations

grasshopper

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: sprinkhaan (nl) m or f, sabelsprinkhaan m or f
Finnish: hepokatti (fi)
French: sauterelle (fr) f
(deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
Hebrew: חֲרְגּוֹל m (ẖargól)
Maori: kikipounamu
Navajo: nahachagii dootłʼizhí
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “katydid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

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

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