verb
- makes a shrill or chirping sound by rubbing body parts together
Usage: typically used of insects
Examples
- The cricket stridulates by rubbing its wings together.
- During mating season, the grasshopper stridulates loudly to attract females.
- The cicada stridulates throughout the hot summer evening.
- Scientists study how the katydid stridulates to communicate.
- The field cricket stridulates from beneath the porch steps.
- Each species of cricket stridulates at a different frequency.