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katydid

DEFINITIONS OF: katydid

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

Types:
Anabrus simplex, mormon cricket
large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
Type of:
long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
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