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any of several large, usually green, American long-horned grasshoppers, the males of which produce a characteristic song.
Origin:
1745–55, Americanism; imitative
1745–55, Americanism; imitative
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katydid
insect of the locust family (Microsentrum rhombifolium), 1784, Amer.Eng. (perhaps first used by John Bartram), imitative of the stridulous sound the male makes when it rubs its front wings together.
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