stridulation
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The male club-winged manakin makes these harmonic sounds through stridulation, rather like a cricket.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017
Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs?
From Time Magazine Archive
Never before had the town heard such nocturnal stridulation, never before had such hosts of shiny, self-assured intruders appeared out of floor chinks, clothes closets, rugs, pantries and cellars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wart felt a man on either side of him take his hand, as they stood in a circle, and then he noticed that the stridulation of the grasshoppers had begun again.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Considering that stridulation takes place about every ten seconds, I calculate that the grasshopper must require a new set of wings every ten days.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
The tiny clickings of their limbs, the perpetual challenges and cross-challenges of crossed antennae, the stridulations of the creatures, all combined to make a high-pitched but deafening din.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
Behind him the clicking roar, the high-pitched stridulations of the horde of army ants, rose in volume.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
All was silence around him, if you discounted the stridulations of insects and the be-ke korak-korak-korak of frogs.
From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.
They were advancing steadily and rapidly, shrill stridulations and a multitude of clickings marking their movements.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
Curious rasping stridulations came from them, sounds which seemed to serve as means of communication, and which Mildred evidently understood.
From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
