1. to make a shrill or chirping sound by rubbing together certain body parts
Usage: typically used of insects like crickets and grasshoppers

Examples

• Crickets stridulate by rubbing their wings together.
• The grasshopper began to stridulate as evening approached.
• Male cicadas stridulate to attract mates during summer.
• You can hear katydids stridulate in the trees at night.
• The field cricket stridulates by scraping its forewings together.
• Many insects stridulate as part of their mating behavior.