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KATYDID
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I. (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:
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)