stridulation
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Etymology edit
1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).
Noun edit
stridulation (countable and uncountable, plural stridulations)
- A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
- 1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons:
- The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.
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stridulation f (plural stridulations)
Further reading edit
- “stridulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.