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Katydid

noun

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

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"Katydid" Quotes from Famous Books

... not long before a comparative silence pervaded the scene. The fierce yelpings of the watch-dogs gradually ceased, and the howling wolf was but indistinctly heard in the distance. The katydid and whippoorwill still sang at intervals, and these sounds, as well as the occasional whirlpool that could be heard rising on the surface of the gliding stream, had a soothing influence, and lulled to slumber the wandering mortals who now ...

— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones

... come, and with it the insistent chorus of tree-toad and katydid, interspersed with the song of the vesper sparrow. From the kitchen came the occasional rattle of dish or pan and the far-away murmur of voices. Patsy strained her ears for some sound of car or team upon the road; ...

— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer

... Kiddy Katydid and his relatives were in possession of a secret that none of the Pleasant Valley folk can solve, though they waste much time and energy trying to guess it. Even to this day it is doubtful if anyone other than Kiddie himself really ...

— The Tale of Tommy Fox • Arthur Scott Bailey

... wehs had no answer. And she does not know to this day, what saved her from being changed into a rabbit, a katydid, or something worse, by the chief of the Little People. She knows, however, that she is very glad she is telling the stories to you, ...

— Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children • Mabel Powers

... singing insects in any one state or district. The singing insects of America are peculiar to particular localities. But the Eastern states have perhaps the most curious insect of this kind. It is called the Katydid. This name is spelt either Katydid, or Catydid—though the former spelling is preferable. Katy, or Katie, is the abbreviation of the name Catherine; very few girls are called by the full name Catherine, also spelt Katherine; because the ...

— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn

... musical with note of katydid and cicada, and the constant purr of the south wind, was upon the prairie country. Under the eternal law of necessity,—the necessity of sunburnt, stunted grass,—the boundaries of the range extended far in ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... The Katydid was a wonderful affair of silver and gold which Dick had constructed on ideas entirely his own. It went up slowly but surely and proved to be as good ...

— The Rover Boys in the Jungle • Arthur M. Winfield

... bank of the river, in the beautiful land of my native mountains. I rambled again in the pathless woods with my rifle on my shoulder. I sat on the old familiar logs amid the falling leaves of autumn and heard the squirrels bark and shake the branches as they jumped from tree to tree. I heard the katydid sing, and the whip-poor-will, and the deep basso-profundo of the bullfrog on the bank of the pond. I heard the drumming of a pheasant and the hoot of a wise old owl away over in "Sleepy Hollow." I heard the ...

— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor

Words linked to "Katydid" : genus Microcentrum, Microcentrum, long-horned grasshopper, mormon cricket, Anabrus simplex, tettigoniid