stridulation
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stridulations
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The male club-winged manakin makes these harmonic sounds through stridulation, rather like a cricket.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017
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
Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs?
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
The air was even richer in aroma than it had been in the morning, but its breath seemed to be part of the uncanny stridulation of the katydids.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
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
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 Robert F. Young
Behind him the clicking roar, the high-pitched stridulations of the horde of army ants, rose in volume.
From The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster
The broken stridulations took on the coherence of intelligible dots and dashes.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
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 Murray Leinster
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