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stridulate

adjective as in squeaky

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The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset.

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I may never want to tell a male grasshopper from a female grasshopper; I may never figure out how to pronounce “stridulate,” the special science word for when bugs rub their feet together.

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Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.

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Insects in Borneo might stridulate loudly at a middle frequency, alternating so as not to drown each other out.

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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