stridulate

/stɹɪdjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

IPA: /S T R IH1 JH AH0 L EY0 T/

verb
  1. 1

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

    syn:chirpchirr

Synonyms

chirpchirr

Translate “stridulate” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stridulate

Back to Dictionary