Stridulate means to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together bodily structures, typically used for male insects. The word comes from the Latin "stridulus" (shrill).
Stridulate bedeutet, ein schrilles Geräusch zu erzeugen, indem man Körperteile reibt, typischerweise bei männlichen Insekten. Das Wort stammt vom lateinischen "stridulus" (schrill) ab.
| Front | stridulate \STRIJ-uh-layt\ |
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| Back | verb To make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures -- used especially of male insects (as crickets or grasshoppers). ["Stridulate" is one member of a word family that has its ancestry in the Latin word "stridulus," meaning "shrill." Also in this family is "stridulation," a noun that can either refer to the shrill sound made when an insect stridulates or can simply mean "the act of stridulating." Another "stridulus" word is "stridulatory," meaning "able to stridulate" or "used in stridulation." There's also "stridulous," meaning "making a shrill creaking sound." "Stridulus" itself comes from "stridere," which is the direct source of the last word we'll mention here. "Stridor" means "a harsh, shrill, or creaking noise" and also "a harsh vibrating sound heard during respiration in cases of obstruction of the air passages."] "Water rushes and warbles over rocks, around our island in the middle of the stream. Insects stridulate in a hum almost electric." |
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