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Meanings of stridulate in English

Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "clitter"
        Examples for "clitter"
        1
        A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
        The War in the Air
        2
        I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
        The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
        3
        The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again' click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock!
        The War in the Air
        4
        Click, clock, clitter-clock, he was rising!
        The War in the Air
        5
        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.
        The War in the Air
        Usage of stridulate in English
        1
        The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
        The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
        2
        Do co-mimics also stridulate or squeak with the same wave-form?
        The Guardian
        3
        The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
        The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
        4
        The only known mammal to stridulate is the streaked tenrec, a spiky hedgehog-like critter from Madagascar that rubs its quills together.
        Wired
        5
        The Krinpit was staggering closer to them, moaning and stridulating.
        Jem
        6
        He does not sing, he does not cry-he stridulates.
        By-Ways of Bombay
        7
        The males are stridulating by themselves, here and there, teasing the passing fair with their antennae.
        The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
        Frequent collocations
        Stridulate through the time