Meanings
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verb
to make a shrill chirping, creaking, or grating sound by rubbing specialized body parts together
Male crickets stridulate by rubbing parts of their forewings together.
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stridulatesstridulatorstridulatory
Etymology
A nineteenth-century back-formation from stridulation, through French from Latin stridulus, 'shrill or creaking,' itself related to stridere, 'to make a harsh sound.' The verb is used especially of insects and other animals with rubbing sound organs.