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What does stridulate mean?

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  1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
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One or both sexes, and sometimes even the nymphs, of a species may stridulate.
The insects which employ the fourth method also stridulate during night.

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