stridulate

IPA: strˈɪdʒʌɫeɪt

(intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.

Examples of "stridulate" in Sentences

Both sexes are able to stridulate.
Garden spiders have been known to stridulate when threatened.
They stridulate with their chelicerae, resulting in a rattling noise.
Most spiders are silent, but some tarantula species are known to stridulate.
It required a considerable effort on the thranx's part not to stridulate wildly as he entered.
Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.
When disturbed by a would be attacker the caterpillars stridulate by rubbing their mouth parts together, creating broadband chirps spanning from 3.7-55.1 kHz.
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.
These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation.