[f. STRIDULATE v. + -OR.] a. An insect that stridulates. b. A stridulating apparatus.
1880. A. H. Swinton, Insect Variety, 152. Others, as the Mole-crickets are evening stridulators.
1895. Natural Sci., Jan., 49. A small and feeble spider, which … could in no sense profit, as the large spiders do, from the possession of a stridulator unless there were something terrifying or repellent in the sound pure and simple.
