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Definition of Stridulations
1. stridulation [n] - See also: stridulation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridulations
Literary usage of Stridulations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"The species of katydids which I have met and with whose stridulations I have ...
Its stridulations, produced by a quick, shuffling wing-movement of brief ..."
2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1915)
"This insect was not uncommon about the town in the trees and shrubbery, as could
be determined on warm evenings by the frequently heard stridulations. ..."
3. A Sketch of the Natural History of the District of Columbia: Together with by Waldo Lee McAtee (1918)
"The stridulations of some "katydids." Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 23, pp. 35-40, 1910.
8 species. ... The stridulations of some eastern and southern crickets ..."
4. Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association by Canadian Forestry Association (1900)
"... and crickets which see-saw their spiny shanks against their hard wing-covers,
and so produce the stridulations that enliven the autumn evenings . ..."
5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"The grateful breezes that tempered the heat of the long summers bore upon their
wings the songs of the bird, and the lazy stridulations of the grasshopper, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"66) has been able to note a faint sound when a large number of stridulating ants
are collected in a bottle. Undoubtedly these stridulations are of ..."
7. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"In other cases, on the contrary, the feebly developed nervures of the females,
unfit to produce audible stridulations, seem to be an inheritance from the ..."
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