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The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
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Do co-mimics also stridulate or squeak with the same wave-form?
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The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
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The only known mammal to stridulate is the streaked tenrec, a spiky hedgehog-like critter from Madagascar that rubs its quills together.
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The Krinpit was staggering closer to them, moaning and stridulating.
Usage of clitter in English
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A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
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I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
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The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again' click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock!
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Click, clock, clitter-clock, he was rising!
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The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air.
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They came streaming out, pouring over his hands and clittering up his arms.
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He attacked the control boards in wild abandon, working levers and clittering at keys feverishly.
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While the operator clittered at the keyboard, Droad called Jarmo and informed him of the situation.
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'Tis just off the path in that clitter of stone beside the stile.
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The comm-officer clittered at his keyboard.
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The keys clittered, and then another chunk of metal fell out on the board which served as his desk.
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And from the way the ice cubes clittered together when he set it back down, I deduced I hadn't been wrong about the palsy.
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"Come up," says the 'bus driver, and the horses strain; "Clitter, clatter, cluck, clak," the line of hurrying hansoms overtakes the omnibus going west.