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Definition of Stridulating
1. stridulate [v] - See also: stridulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridulating
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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