Clitter (Verb)
Meaning
Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- Crickets rub their wings to clitter a sound that attracts mates.
- The grasshopper's ability to clitter its hind legs serves as a warning mechanism.
- Male katydids clitter their wings at night to create an orchestra of sounds.
- The cicada's loud noise is actually its clittering abdomen to scare predators away.
- When frightened, some insects will clitter a warning signal to other insects nearby.