英:['strɪdjʊleɪt]
美:['strɪdʒəˌleɪt]
英:['strɪdjʊleɪt]
美:['strɪdʒəˌleɪt]
vi.
(昆虫尤指蝉和蟋蟀摩擦腿或翅翼)发出刺耳的声响
vt.
轧轧作响
strid·u·late
strI j leIt
第三人称单数:stridulates
现在分词:stridulating
过去式:stridulated
过去分词:stridulated
stridulatory (adj.), stridulation (n.)
intransitive verb
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do.Ants stridulate to communicate with each other.
back-formation from stridulation, from French, high-pitched sound, from Latin stridulus shrill
The first known use of stridulate was in 1838
1 Nevertheless the power of stridulating is certainly a383 sexual character in some few Coleoptera.
2 In two families of the Homoptera the males alone possess, in an efficient state, organs which may be called vocal; and in three families of the Orthoptera the males alone possess stridulating organs.
3 Luminous Organs.—The function of the stridulating organs just described is presumably to afford means of recognition by sound.
4 Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
5 Far off to landward came the faint, sleepy clucking of a quail, and the stridulating of unnumbered crickets; a long ripple licked the slope of the beach and slid back into the ocean.
6 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.
7 This view is not rendered improbable from beetles stridulating under various emotions; we know that birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates.
8 Coxal file: in some aquatic Coleoptera a series of striations just above the hind coxa of male and, perhaps, a stridulating organ.
9 This naturalist has lately found a fossil insect in the Devonian formation of New Brunswick, which is furnished with “the well-known tympanum or stridulating apparatus of the male Locustidæ.”
10 They may stridulate.
他们可能发尖锐的摩擦声。
11 It is commonly supposed that the grasshopper stridulates by rubbing his back legs together; but this is not the case.
12 Orthoptera, metamorphosis of; stridulating apparatus of; colours of; rudimentary stridulating organs in female; stridulation of the, and Homoptera, discussed.
13 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.
14 Hemiptera are remarkable for the variety of their stridulating organs.
15 "He said it would be a good idea to try and listen to the beetle larvae stridulating and record it."
16 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.
17 Insects in Borneo might stridulate loudly at a middle frequency, alternating so as not to drown each other out.
18 This produces a continuous "chirp" as the male insects rub, or "stridulate" their wings in a scissor-like motion.
19 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.
20 We thus see that the stridulating organs in the different coleopterous families are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure.