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katydid

/key-tee-did/US // ˈkeɪ ti dɪd //UK // (ˈkeɪtɪˌdɪd) //

蝈蝈,蝈蝈姐,蝈蝈的故事,蝈蝈的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several large, usually green, American long-horned grasshoppers, the males of which produce a characteristic song.

Examples

  • And at last Kiddie Katydid told him that it was Mr. Nighthawk that he had heard.

  • The call consists of a series of short, high notes, somewhat reminiscent of a katydid's song.

  • Once another man saw a row of katydid eggs laid as neatly as could be on the edge of a clean linen collar.

  • But the stillness of the midsummer night had settled again, except for the voices of the whippoorwill and the katydid.

  • That is a very rare form of a katydid, which lives only in the upper air.