英语词汇katydid的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	katydid
词源	katydid. John Bartram, America’s first great botanist, first recorded katydid (or a word similar to it) in 1751 as the name of the large, green arboreal insect of the locust family known scientifically as Microcentrum rhombifolium. The word is of imitative origin, the chattering noise the insect makes sounding like “Katy did! Katy did!”
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