stridulate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
    clitter.
    • male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate

WordNet

Strid"u*late transitive verb
Etymology
See Stridulous.
Definitions
  1. To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.

Webster 1913