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Definition of Stridulate
1. Verb. Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures. "Male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"
Definition of Stridulate
1. v. t. To make a shrill, creaking noise
Definition of Stridulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stridulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridulate
Literary usage of Stridulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"The Locusts stridulate in two ways. Certain species rub the inner surface of ...
The most common representatives of the insects which stridulate in this way ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"The Locusts stridulate in two ways. Certain species rub the inner surface of ...
The most common representatives of the insects which stridulate in this way ..."
3. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1869)
"The insects which employ the fourth method stridulate during flight,—the ...
There are numerous kinds of jumping grass hoppers which stridulate in the ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"Locusts have short and stout legs, short and stout feelers, and are mute, or, if
they stridulate at all, do so by rubbing the hind thighs against the sides ..."
5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... gummed to the part)*; but notwithstanding the suggestive structure of the
rostrum and the existence of the sub-thoracic groove, it would not stridulate ..."
6. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1901)
"... all of those portions of the elytra that could be reached by the pleural
plates, it was found that the insects could stridulate as loudly as before. ..."
7. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"Stridulating organs attain their best development in Orthoptera, in which group
the ability to stridulate is often restricted to the male, though not so ..."
8. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1893)
"When the insect has forgotten his fears and begins to stridulate violently, ...
Orthoptera stridulate in four different ways : first, by rubbing the base of ..."
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