1. made a shrill or chirping sound by rubbing body parts together (past tense of stridulate)
Usage: biological/entomological term

Examples

• The cricket stridulated loudly in the summer evening.
• Male grasshoppers stridulated to attract mates.
• The cicada stridulated from high in the oak tree.
• Scientists recorded how the katydid stridulated its wings.
• The locust stridulated by rubbing its hind legs against its forewings.