单词 | stridulate |
释义 | stridulatev. a. intransitive. To make a harsh, grating, shrill noise: said spec. of certain insects. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > shriek shritcha1250 scritcha1300 screamc1340 shriek1567 screech1577 screak1607 squall1630 sweara1728 stridulate1838 1838 tr. Goureau in Entom. Mag. V. 98 I am inclined to believe these insects mute,..because I have never heard them stridulate. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 101 Women are obliged to stridulate louder at each other as the wind rises and threatens to drown their voices. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1874) x. 303 Some species stridulate very loudly. 1895 Nat. Sci. Jan. 49 The spider stridulates to warn animals that would prey upon it of its deadly nature. b. Pathology. (See quot. 1898.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > breathe noisily stridulate1898 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle > in throat rottlea1400 ruttlea1400 rattle1589 stridulate1898 1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Stridulate, to suffer from stridor. Derivatives ˈstridulating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > harsh and shrill (of sound) > making yellingOE yellinga1382 stridulous?1611 strident1656 stridulatory1838 stridulant1843 stridulating1861 1861–2 Le Conte Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. i. Introd. p. xx Stridulating organs..exist in various families. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1874) ix. 273 The males of several species of Theridion have the power of making a stridulating sound. 1880 A. H. Swinton Insect Variety 167 The Stridulating Locust (Pachytylus stridulus). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1838 |
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