katydid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: katydid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for katydid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
katydid n large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Katydid \Ka"ty*did`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect ({Cyrtophyllus concavus}) of the family {Locustid[91]}, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.