Stridulate Definition
strĭjə-lāt
stridulated, stridulates, stridulating
verb
stridulates, stridulating
To make a shrill grating or chirping sound by rubbing certain body parts together, as certain insects do.
Webster's New World
To produce by rubbing body parts together.
American Heritage
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Origin of Stridulate
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Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strÄ«dulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking"), from strÄ«dō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss"))
From Wiktionary
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From Latin strīdulus stridulous stridulous
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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