Stridulate

Word STRIDULATE
Character 10
Hyphenation strid u late
Pronunciations /stɹɪdjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

Definitions and meanings of "Stridulate"

What do we mean by stridulate?

To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do. intransitive verb

To produce by rubbing body parts together. intransitive verb

To make a stridulous noise, as an insect; effect stridulation, as the cicada; grate, scrape, or creak with the organs of stridulation; shrill; chirr.

To make a shrill, creaking noise. transitive verb

To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together. verb

Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures verb

To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.

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The word "stridulate" in example sentences

When disturbed by a would be attacker the caterpillars stridulate by rubbing their mouth parts together, creating broadband chirps spanning from 3.7-55.1 kHz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It required a considerable effort on the thranx's part not to stridulate wildly as he entered. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)

Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments. ❋ Unknown (1898)

I then removed the antennæ of the male, and again made the female stridulate; the male heard her, and at once crawled toward her, although his antennæ were entirely removed. ❋ James Weir (1881)

These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. ❋ Unknown (1980)

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