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
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
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
Beetles stridulate under various emotions, in the same manner as birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates.
From The Descent of Man 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
In the females, however, of all three species of Oryctes, when the abdomen of a softened specimen is pushed backwards and forwards, a slight grating or stridulating sound can be produced.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
File: the diagonal ridged vein near the base of the tegmina in crickets, used in stridulating: in general any structure wherever situated that serves the same purpose.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The root-feeding larvae of the cockchafer and allied members of the Scarabaeidae have a ridged area on the mandible, which is scraped by teeth on the maxillae, apparently forming a stridulating organ.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
We thus see that in the different coleopterous families the stridulating organs are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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