stridulation
Meaning
Noun
- A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
Origin
- 1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus, from strīdō.
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