KATYDID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does katydid mean? 

• KATYDID (noun)
  The noun KATYDID has 1 sense:

1. large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings

  Familiarity information: KATYDID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KATYDID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("katydid" is a kind of...):

long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid (grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "katydid"):

Anabrus simplex; mormon cricket (large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States)

Holonyms ("katydid" is a member of...):

genus Microcentrum; Microcentrum (katydids)