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    TETTIGONIID

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the maleplay

    Synonyms:

    long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("tettigoniid" is a kind of...):

    grasshopper; hopper (terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tettigoniid"):

    katydid (large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings)

    Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus (large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States)

    Holonyms ("tettigoniid" is a member of...):

    family Tettigoniidae; Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers; katydids)

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