Crossword-Solution: STRIDULATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stridulation | n. | The act of stridulating. |
| Stridulation | n. | The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. |
| Stridulation | n. | The noise itself. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “STRIDULATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LOCUST, sound of the | 1 answer |
| CRICKET, sound of | 2 answers |
| A SHRILL GRATING OR CHIRPING NOISE MADE BY SOME INSECTS BY RUBBING BODY PARTS TOGETHER | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
RLSADO
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with STRIDULATION (5)
These characters are absent in the lowest classes—Brilliant colours—Mollusca—Annelids—Crustacea, secondary sexual characters strongly developed; dimorphism; colour; characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation by the males—Myriapoda.
These characters absent in the lowest classes—Brilliant colours—Mollusca —Annelids—Crustacea, secondary sexual characters strongly developed; dimorphism; colour; characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation by the males—Myriapoda.
The species of Pneumora have been more profoundly modified for the sake of stridulation than any other orthopterous insect; for in the male the whole body has been converted into a musical instrument, being distended with air, like a great pellucid bladder, so as to increase the resonance.
Wollaston and Crotch were able to discover the presence of beetles belonging to the genus Acalles by their stridulation.
The belief that the stridulation serves as a sexual call is supported by the fact that death-ticks (Anobium tessellatum) are well known to answer each other’s ticking, and, as I have myself observed, a tapping noise artificially made.
Quotes with STRIDULATION (2)
He’s focused on something — or someone — over her shoulder. The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown conducting to the wind and let Mother Nature take over. Birds trill a warning as the breeze rustles the plant life. Wings flutter overhead. A crescendo of stridulation changes tempo, the insects seemingly performing a sonata as the rhythm shifts yet again.“What — who is it?” Summer asks in a strained whisper…
Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.