stridulate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈstɹɪdjʊleɪt/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together. intransitive
    — A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.

词形变化

stridulates present,singular,third-person stridulating participle,present stridulated participle,past stridulated past

词源

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))
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