'Stridulate' definitions:
Definition of 'stridulate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate" [syn: stridulate, clitter]
Definition of 'Stridulate'
From: GCIDE
- Stridulate \Strid"u*late\, v. t. [See Stridulous.] To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zool.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects. [1913 Webster]