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Katydid

Definition: Katydid

Katydid

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "katydid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Katydid

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

A gossiping grasshopper who is always meddling in Katy's affairs. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Katydid

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A katydid is an insect belonging to Phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Orthoptera, family Tettigoniidae.

It is the common American name of certain insects belonging to the grasshopper family Tettigoniidae which contains several thousands of species.

Also known as "long horned grasshoppers" and "Bush Crickets", of the Tettigoniids the term "katydid" is more generally applied to those species that exhibit particularly deep forwings, such as those of the genus Pterophylla (litterally "winged leaf").

The males have noise producing (stridulating) organs located on their front wings which create a sound supposedly like "katy did, katy didn't", hence the name.

Katydids are common in the Eastern United States.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Katydid."

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Crosswords: Katydid

English words defined with "katydid": Anabrus simplexmormon cricket. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Katydid

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Books

  • Katydid & Other Critters: Tales of Fantasy and Mystery (reference)

  • Katydid Books and Music (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Katydid

Photos:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Katydid

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

katydid

89

insect katydid

8

katydid picture

5

katydid shieldbacked

3

katydid sound

2

bug katydid

2
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Modern Translations: Katydid

Language Translations for "katydid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

голям американски скакалец. (various references)

   

Czech

  

insekt (deathwatch, flesh fly, leaf beetle, phyllium, saw-fly, shorebug). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

حشره راست بال . (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γρύλλοσ (cricket), είδοσ ακτίδοσ, ακρίδωσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagy amerikai szöcske. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tonggeret. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蟋蟀 (cricket, grasshopper), 馬追い (driving a horse into a pen, loading a horse with passengers or baggage). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりぎりす (cricket, grasshopper), うまおい (driving a horse into a pen, loading a horse with passengers or baggage), "おろぎ (cricket, grasshopper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atydidkay

   

Russian 

  

зеленый кузнечик. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

američki zeleni skakavac. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vårtbitare. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตั๊กแตนอเมริกันขนา"ใหญ่. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Katydid

Derivations

Words beginning with "katydid": katydids. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Katydid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catydid, Kaydee, Kaydet, kaydid, kititit, Kotadia. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Katydid"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "katydid" (pronounced kā"tēdi'd)
3-d i' doutdid, overdid.

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Anagrams: Katydid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-k-t-y"

-2 letters: kiddy.

-3 letters: adit, didy, dita, dyad, ikat, kadi, kyat, tidy.

-4 letters: add, aid, ait, dad, dak, day, did, dit, kat, kay, kid, kit, tad, yak, yid.

-5 letters: ad, ai, at, ay, id, it, ka, ta, ti, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-k-t-y"
 

+1 letter: katydids.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Katydid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 61 74 79 64 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    .-    -    -.--.    -..    ..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01100001 01110100 01111001 01100100 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#97 &#116 &#121 &#100 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0061 0074 0079 0064 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

45678691707570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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