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  • verb Present participle of stridulate.

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Examples

  • Pilwondepat was surprised he could say it without stridulating.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • At almost the same instant, the leaping, stridulating Twikanrozex struck the larger biped with all six feet, knocking him away from the exposed instrumentation.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Pilwondepat was surprised he could say it without stridulating.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Clicks and whistles and stridulating would have reached much farther, but were incomprehensible to the bewildered mammals stumbling all around him.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Clicks and whistles and stridulating would have reached much farther, but were incomprehensible to the bewildered mammals stumbling all around him.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • At almost the same instant, the leaping, stridulating Twikanrozex struck the larger biped with all six feet, knocking him away from the exposed instrumentation.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • File: the diagonal ridged vein near the base of the tegmina in crickets, used in stridulating: in general any structure wherever situated that serves the same purpose.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Phleboptera: = Hymenoptera; q.v. Phonetic: sound producing; applied to stridulating structures.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Considerable merriment was occasioned when Dr. Mott showed what a locust stridulating in the air would be called upon to do if the present theory of sound were correct.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • Then he lifted up his raucous, stridulating voice and sang, with the accentuation of an artistic drawl which no one but himself ever knew where it was likely to come, the opening verse of his song --

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

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  • "...and once the all-pervading sound of stridulating insects had lasted ten or twenty minutes..."

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 181

    February 21, 2008