Definition of Stridulating

1. Verb. (present participle of stridulate) ¹

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Definition of Stridulating

1. stridulate [v] - See also: stridulate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridulating

stridences
stridencies
stridency
strident
stridently
strider
striders
strides
strideth
striding
stridor
stridors
stridulate
stridulated
stridulates
stridulating (current term)
stridulation
stridulations
stridulator
stridulators
stridulatory
stridulous
stridulously
strife
strife-ridden
strifeful
strifeless
strifes
strift
strifts

Literary usage of Stridulating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1888)
"With some species the males are provided with weapons for fighting ; some live in pairs and show mutual affection ; many have the power of stridulating when ..."

2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1897)
"Dr. Sharp exhibited a larva of one of our common Geotrupes, and called attention to its stridulating organ, iu which one pair of legs work upon the pair in ..."

3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1905)
"On stridulating Hemiptera of the Subfamily ... and the, at that time, still incompletely known stridulating apparatus of the ..."

4. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society by Brooklyn Entomological Society (1885)
"Base of Antennae partly enveloped by the eyes; front coxae not conical, though sometimes prominent; stridulating plate (absent only in ..."

5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"No satisfactory explanation of the advantage to these larvae of the possession of stridulating organs has been offered; we can only say that the sound ..."

6. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"C. Tarsi four-jointed ; ovipositor (when exserted) forming a strongly compressed, generally sword-shaped blade ; the stridulating organs of male limited to ..."

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