Strigulate vs Stridulate - What's the difference?
strigulate | stridulate |
(zoology) To streak or stripe very finely; to make strigate or strigose; to cause to have strigulation. To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
*1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 191:
*:A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
* 1984 , ,
As verbs the difference between strigulate and stridulate
is that strigulate is to streak or stripe very finely; to make strigate or strigose; to cause to have strigulation while stridulate is to make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.strigulate
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(strigulat)stridulate
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- The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.