tettigoniid

Definitions of tettigoniid

1. noun

   grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
   synonyms: long-horned grasshopper

   types:

   katydid

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

   Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus, sand cricket

   large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

   Anabrus simplex, mormon cricket

   large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States

   type of:

   grasshopper, hopper

   terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping