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katydid
Part of speech: NounA large, green, tree insect which makes a shrill sound similar to the words Katy did.
Usage examples "katydid":- But the stillness of the midsummer night had settled again, except for the voices of the whippoorwill and the katydid. - "A Pagan of the Hills", Charles Neville Buck.
- " I heard you," cried the Katydid, " and I wondered what was the matter." - "Among the Meadow People", Clara Dillingham Pierson.
- A cheery little cricket chirped somewhere in this scene of impending failure; nearby a katydid was grinding out her old familiar song as if it were the latest popular air. - "Pee-wee Harris", Percy Keese Fitzhugh.