Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stridulatory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: stridu-la-to-ry
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation.

Example Sentences

"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)."

Questions

What does stridulatory mean?: Able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation.

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