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
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
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
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
The insects which employ the fourth method also stridulate during night.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
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
Yet, as I have said, if a public speaker may fidget with his back legs while he is stridulating, why not a public grasshopper?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
This view is not rendered improbable from beetles stridulating under various emotions; we know that birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
Stridulation: a creaking sound produced by rubbing together two striated or otherwise roughened surfaces: the act of stridulating or the noise produced by it.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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
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