verb
- making a shrill or chirping sound by rubbing body parts together (especially of insects)
Usage: present participle of stridulate; biological/entomological term
Examples
- The cricket was stridulating loudly in the garden.
- Grasshoppers produce their characteristic sound by stridulating their hind legs against their wings.
- The cicadas were stridulating throughout the hot summer evening.
- Scientists recorded the stridulating patterns of different beetle species.
- The katydid’s stridulating could be heard from across the yard.