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stridulatory

stridulatory adjective: able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation.

Adjective

stridulatory (not comparable)

  1. (usually) Able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation.
    • The stridulatory mechanisms and sound patterns in these groups probably reflect the origins of acoustic communication in Orthoptera, particularly since many of the primitive genera lack ears and appear to use sound only for defence, as a plesiomorphic (primitive) condition (Field, 1993a).2001, L. H. Field, The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and Their Allies, page 271

Questions about stridulatory

What does stridulatory mean?
Stridulatory means able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation.
What part of speech is stridulatory?
Stridulatory is an adjective.

Words near stridulatory in the dictionary

  1. stridulating
  2. stridulation
  3. stridulations
  4. stridulator
  5. stridulators
  6. stridulatory
  7. stridulent
  8. stridulous
  9. stridulously
  10. stridulousness
  11. Striegel

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