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STRI-juh-layt
verb
the production of sound by the rubbing together of body parts as done by the cricket or cicada
1863The Naturalist on the River AmazonThey are the call-notes of the males. In the common field-cricket of Europe the male has been observed to place itself, in the evening, at the entrance of its burrow, and stridulate until a female approaches, when the louder notes are succeeded by a more subdued tone, while the successful musician caresses with his antennae the mate he has won.1871The Descent of ManAccording to Westring, Reduvius Personatus also stridulates.1947Consider Her Ways...all the rest of us would meanwhile move to a point half-way between our army and the hill; there, having halted, we should all stridulate so as at once to alarm the enemy…Labels: Charles Darwin, Frederick Philip Grove, Walter Bates
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