Crossword clues for stridulate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stridulate \Strid"u*late\, v. t. [See Stridulous.] To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zo["o]l.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
WordNet
v. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate" [syn: clitter]
Usage examples of "stridulate".
Yet there are many things animals can do that you cannot, such as stridulate, or chirr, to name just one.
To stridulate, or chirr, one of the minor achievements of the cricket, your species is dependent on the intestines of the sheep and the hair of the horse.
From their corner came a medley of mellow sounds, the subdued chirps of the violins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum.
As Mel raised her eyes to heaven and breathed in the warm scent of the tropical night folding itself about her, alive with the stridulating of a million unseen tiny insects singing in the darkness, she did at last manage a smile.
A mixed audience of complimentary thranx and perspiring humans stridulated and cheered in unison.
And as the check-up came through from communications control, the eerie, stridulated, unconsonanted noises of his language filled the biology laboratory and went out on the widened beam of the main transmitter.
Insects buzzed and chirped, keened and stridulated, and overhead, like some feathered projectile, an insectivorous bird dove with a piercing and protracted "keeeeee" at the edge of human hearing.
The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset.