a. [f. STRIDULATE v. + -ORY2.] Pertaining to, causing, or caused by stridulation; also, capable of stridulating.
1838. trans. Goureau, in Entom. Mag., V. 93. It is sufficient to cut off one of the elytra; we shall then see the cricket execute the stridulatory movement without producing any sound. Ibid., 97. The stridulatory sound. Ibid., 363. All the stridulatory insects hitherto mentioned.
1874. Darwin, Desc. Man, x. (ed. 2), 288. The females have rudiments of the stridulatory organs proper to the male.
