[
UK
/kˈætɪdˌɪd/
]
[ US /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/ ]
NOUN
- large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
How To Use katydid In A Sentence
- Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
- Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
- SYDNEY (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in Papua New Guinea. New Species Discovered: Conservation International Researchers Find Hundreds Of Undocumented Creatures In Papua New Guinea (PHOTOS)
- Short-winged female meadow katydids discriminate among tremulation signals of males to choose a larger male, even in the absence of a signalling male.
- Not only the grasshoppers but other family members of the Orthoptera are here described, including mantes, walking-sticks, katydids, and crickets. A Mother's List of Books for Children
- The katydid, a type of grasshopper, is active at night and rests motionless amid foliage during the day .
- Crickets and katydids make noise by rubbing their forewings together.
- In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid). Family Winter Preview
- High-frequency, stridulating muscles of katydids also have a mitochondrial volume of over 40%.
- They feed on katydids - insects that can bring terrible catastrophes. Times, Sunday Times