VERB | perception | stridulate, clitter | make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures |
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Meaning | make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s something | |
Example | "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate" | |
Synonym | clitter | |
Broader | make noise, resound, noise | emit a noise |
Nouns | stridulation | a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together |
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