ALL meanings of stridulate
strid·u·late
S s - verb without object stridulate to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill. 1
- verb stridulate (of insects such as the cricket) to produce sounds by rubbing one part of the body against another 0
- intransitive verb stridulate to make a shrill grating or chirping sound by rubbing certain body parts together, as certain insects do 0