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Definition of Stridulation
1. Noun. A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together.
Definition of Stridulation
1. n. The act of stridulating.
Definition of Stridulation
1. Noun. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stridulation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridulation
Literary usage of Stridulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"stridulation of Arctia caja.—Notwithstanding the stray notices scattered over
entomological literature, I have been very reluctant to believe in the ..."
2. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1898)
"... characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation
by the males—Myriapoda. WITH animals belonging to the lower classes, ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"BY D. SHARP, HA, MB, PES, £o. In Ent. News Philad., vol. xii, p. 271, Mr. Babb has
given an account of the stridulation of ..."
4. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation
by the males—Myriapoda. WITH animals belonging to the lower classes, ..."
5. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... returning to it again and again, and found, on closer inspection, that the
female was dead and dry.—WW Es AM, Eagle House, St. Leonards. stridulation IN ..."
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