strid·u·late

(strĭj′ə-lāt′)

v. strid·u·lat·ed, strid·u·lat·ing, strid·u·lates

v.intr.

To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do.

v.tr.

To produce by rubbing body parts together: "The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note" (John Updike).

[From Latin strīdulus, stridulous; see stridulous.]

strid′u·la′tion n.

strid′u·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.

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stridulate

(ˈstrɪdjʊˌleɪt)

(Zoology) (intr) (of insects such as the cricket) to produce sounds by rubbing one part of the body against another

[C19: back formation from stridulation, from Latin strīdulus creaking, hissing, from strīdēre to make a harsh noise]

ˌstriduˈlation n

ˈstriduˌlator n

stridulatory adj

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strid•u•late

(ˈstrɪdʒ əˌleɪt)

v.i. -lat•ed, -lat•ing.

to produce a shrill, grating sound by rubbing together certain parts of the body: crickets stridulating.

[1830–40; < Latin strīdul(us) making a shrill sound (derivative of strīdēre; see strident) + -ate¹]

strid`u•la′tion, n.

stridulate

Past participle: stridulated
Gerund: stridulating

Imperative
stridulate
stridulate

Present
I stridulate
you stridulate
he/she/it stridulates
we stridulate
you stridulate
they stridulate

Preterite
I stridulated
you stridulated
he/she/it stridulated
we stridulated
you stridulated
they stridulated

Present Continuous
I am stridulating
you are stridulating
he/she/it is stridulating
we are stridulating
you are stridulating
they are stridulating

Present Perfect
I have stridulated
you have stridulated
he/she/it has stridulated
we have stridulated
you have stridulated
they have stridulated

Past Continuous
I was stridulating
you were stridulating
he/she/it was stridulating
we were stridulating
you were stridulating
they were stridulating

Past Perfect
I had stridulated
you had stridulated
he/she/it had stridulated
we had stridulated
you had stridulated
they had stridulated

Future
I will stridulate
you will stridulate
he/she/it will stridulate
we will stridulate
you will stridulate
they will stridulate

Future Perfect
I will have stridulated
you will have stridulated
he/she/it will have stridulated
we will have stridulated
you will have stridulated
they will have stridulated

Future Continuous
I will be stridulating
you will be stridulating
he/she/it will be stridulating
we will be stridulating
you will be stridulating
they will be stridulating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stridulating
you have been stridulating
he/she/it has been stridulating
we have been stridulating
you have been stridulating
they have been stridulating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stridulating
you will have been stridulating
he/she/it will have been stridulating
we will have been stridulating
you will have been stridulating
they will have been stridulating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stridulating
you had been stridulating
he/she/it had been stridulating
we had been stridulating
you had been stridulating
they had been stridulating

Conditional
I would stridulate
you would stridulate
he/she/it would stridulate
we would stridulate
you would stridulate
they would stridulate

Past Conditional
I would have stridulated
you would have stridulated
he/she/it would have stridulated
we would have stridulated
you would have stridulated
they would have stridulated

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

stridulate - make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"

clitter

make noise, noise, resound - emit a noise

Translations

striduler

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japonica often stridulate when they are pinched by human fingers, or when other individuals crawl on their back.

Sound production in the aquatic isopod Cymodoce japonica (Crustacea: Peracarida)

Insects that stridulate during encounters with arthropod and mammal predators have been shown to gain an advantage by decreasing predator handling time and in some cases avoiding predation (Masters 1979).

Characterization of stridulatory structures and sounds of the larger Mexican pine beetle, Dendroctonus approximatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Adults stridulate by rubbing the jugum of the forewing against the metanotum [25].

Report on a large collection of Merope tuber newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with notes on collection technique, sex ratio, and male clasper size

These scorpions are unique in possessing the ability to stridulate audibly by scraping nodules and/or ridges on the dorsal surfaces of their pectines against granules on the ventral surfaces of mesosomal sternite III, a remarkable behavior that presumably functions to deter would-be predators (Pocock 1904; Lourenco & Cloudsley-Thompson 1995; Armas 2001; Lourenco 2007).

Redescription of Rhopalurus abudi (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with first description of the male and first record from mainland Hispaniola

richteri stridulate from a variety of different cues: nest disturbance, discovery of a new food source, physical restraint, and interactions with ants of intra or interspecific colonies.

Zoology and Entomology

Male crickets "chirp," or more accurately, stridulate, by shuffling a toughened scraper on one front wing against the enlarged transverse vein of the other front wing.

Chirp, chirp, chirp