Stridulate (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
- Male cicadas stridulate by rubbing their abdomens and wings together to produce their distinctive mating calls.
- Crickets stridulate to communicate with each other at night, creating a chorus of sounds that fill the air.
- As the sun sets, grasshoppers begin to stridulate, signaling the start of their nocturnal activities.
- Some species of katydids stridulate using their wings, while others use special structures on their abdomens.
- During the mating season, male crickets will often stridulate loudly and repeatedly to attract females.