stridulate
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of stridulate
First recorded in 1830–40; back formation from stridulation; see stridulous, -ate 1, -ion
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Like crickets and katydids, they can stridulate by rubbing its body parts together to attract a mate or ward off potential predators.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2013
Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg
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.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
The insects which employ the fourth method also stridulate during night.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luminous Organs.—The function of the stridulating organs just described is presumably to afford means of recognition by sound.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Scudder has described an annectant insect in Devonian strata, furnished with a stridulating apparatus.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Far off to landward came the faint, sleepy clucking of a quail, and the stridulating of unnumbered crickets; a long ripple licked the slope of the beach and slid back into the ocean.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank
Nevertheless the power of stridulating is certainly a383 sexual character in some few Coleoptera.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
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