| 单词 |
stridulate |
| 释义 |
stridulate, v.|ˈstrɪdjʊleɪt|
[f. mod.L. strīdulāt-, strīdulāre, f. L. strīdul-us: see stridulous.]
intr. To make a harsh, grating, shrill noise: said spec. of certain insects.
1838tr. Goureau in Entom. Mag. V. 98, I am inclined to believe these insects mute,..because I have never heard them stridulate. 1854Badham Halieut. 101 Women are obliged to stridulate louder at each other as the wind rises and threatens to drown their voices. 1871Darwin Desc. Man x. (1874) 303 Some species stridulate very loudly. 1895Natural Sci. Jan. 49 The spider stridulates to warn animals that would prey upon it of its deadly nature.
b. Path. (See quot.)
1898Syd. Soc. Lex., Stridulate, to suffer from stridor.
Hence ˈstridulating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1861–2Le Conte Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. i. Introd. p. xx, Stridulating organs..exist in various families. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ix. (1874) 273 The males of several species of Theridion have the power of making a stridulating sound. 1880A. H. Swinton Insect Variety 167 The Stridulating Locust (Pachytylus stridulus). |
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