单词 | katydid |
释义 | katydidn. U.S. A large longhorn grasshopper of the family Tettigoniidæ, of arboreal habits, which produces by stridulation a noise to which its name is due; the common or broad-winged species ( Cyrtophyllum concavum) abounds in the central and eastern states of America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Tettigoniidae > member of katydid1784 tettigonian1842 longhorn grasshopper1893 koringkriek1913 tettigoniid1921 1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 70 It was fair and pleasant, and the great green grasshopper began to sing (Catedidist) these were the first I observed this year.] 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 243 They are named by the inhabitants here katy did's, from their note, which is loud and strong, bearing a striking resemblance to those words. 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio 1 539 October..roused the Katydid in chattering wrath. a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 346 Owls, crickets, tree-frogs, kitty-dids resound. 1815 R. Sutcliff Trav. N. Amer. (ed. 2) xiv. 268 I was entertained with the harmony..of the bull frogs, tree frogs, kittydids. 1818 S. Woodworth Evening And from each thicket, marsh, and tree The cricket, frog, and Katydee With various notes assist the glee. 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. iii. 35 The frogs croaked, the caty-dids caty-didded it, the crickets chirped. 1829 T. Flint George Mason 11 The measured creaking of the crickets and catadeds. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xxviii. 311 The little catadid pierced the air with his shrill music. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. x. 135 Locusts, katiedids, beetles, and hornets. 1838 E. Flagg Far West II. 214 Even until the morning dawned did a concert of whippoorwills and catydids keep up their infernal oratorio. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ix. 248 Voices..stridulous enough to sing duets with the katydids. 1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 92 The caty-dids..were noisily welcoming the early autumn. 1870 Scribner's Monthly 1 164 The Katydids began to drone on the bark. 1886 Outing 9 106/2 Soon the chiding katydids mingled their voices with the rush of the foaming river. 1909 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 16 Sept. 1 All around the globe people are like katydids, saying he did and he didn't in an endless reiteration. 1935 M. Moore Sel. Poems 64 The small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye. 1942 E. O. Essig College Entomol. viii. 95 The name ‘katydid’ has gradually replaced all others. It originated in the United States, having been derived from characteristic stridulatory sounds produced by the males of certain green species, notably Pterophylla camellifolia..whose note, the loudest of all species of the eastern states, simulates ‘Katy did, Katy she did’. 1957 L. Eiseley Immense Journey 25 The skilled listener can distinguish man's noise from the katydid's rhythmic assertion. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. iii. 74 Katydids are predominantly green, have exceedingly long antennae, are more often heard than seen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1784 |
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