U.S. Also kattiedid, kittydid. [Echoic.] A large green orthopterous insect of the family Locustidæ, of arboreal habits, which produces by stridulation a noise to which its name is due; the common or broad-winged species (Cyrtophyllum concavum) abounds in the central and eastern states of America.
1800. A. Wilson, in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 346. Owls, crickets, treefrogs, kittydids resound. Ibid. (1805), 113. October … roused the katydid in chattering wrath.
1832. Mrs. F. Trollope, Dom. Mann. Amer. (1894), I. 135. Locusts, kattiedids, beetles, and hornets.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883), 186. Voices … stridulous enough to sing duets with the katydids.
