Word.ws English Dictionary

tettigoniid

/ˌtɛtɪˈɡəʊniɪd/

tettigoniid noun: any member of the family Tettigoniidae, the katydids or bush-crickets.

Noun

tettigoniid (plural tettigoniids)

  1. Any member of the family Tettigoniidae, the katydids or bush-crickets.
    • Representatives of the Mermithidae are the most common nematode parasites of tettigoniids, however spirurids and more rarely, subulurids and thelastomatids, also occur in some members of this family.1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations

Forms of tettigoniid

pluraltettigoniids

Questions about tettigoniid

What does tettigoniid mean?
Tettigoniid means any member of the family Tettigoniidae, the katydids or bush-crickets.
What part of speech is tettigoniid?
Tettigoniid is a noun.
How do you pronounce tettigoniid?
Tettigoniid is pronounced /ˌtɛtɪˈɡəʊniɪd/.
What is the plural of tettigoniid?
The plural of tettigoniid is tettigoniids.

Words near tettigoniid in the dictionary

  1. tetties
  2. tettigarctid
  3. tettigarctids
  4. tettigonid
  5. tettigonids
  6. tettigoniid
  7. tettigoniids
  8. tettigonioid
  9. tettigonioids
  10. tettish
  11. tettix

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tettigoniid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tettigoniid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tettigoniid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.