stridulate
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Like crickets and katydids, they can stridulate by rubbing its body parts together to attract a mate or ward off potential predators.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2013
Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg
Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
The insects which employ the fourth method also stridulate during night.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
I then removed the antennæ of the male, and again made the female stridulate; the male heard her, and at once crawled toward her, although his antennæ were entirely removed.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the females, however, of all three species of Oryctes, a slight grating or stridulating sound is produced, when the abdomen of a softened specimen is pushed backwards and forwards.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Mr Scudder believed he had obtained a specimen of Orthoptera in which a stridulating organ was present.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L by Project Gutenberg
Scudder has described an annectant insect in Devonian strata, furnished with a stridulating apparatus.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
