Word Meanings - STRIDULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.

Related words: (words related to STRIDULATORY)

• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• STRIDULOUS
  Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis , a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• STRIDULATOR
  That which stridulates. Darwin.
• ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS
  The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
• STRIDULATION
  The act of stridulating. Specifically: The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The noise
• ADAPTION
  Adaptation. Cheyne.
• ADAPTLY
  In a suitable manner. Prior.
• ADAPTIVENESS
  The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
• STRIDULATORY
  Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.
• STRIDULATE
  To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically ,
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• COADAPTATION
  Mutual adaption. R. Owen.
• INADAPTATION
  Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.