stridulation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Burl knew that the stridulation was caused by the doubtful insect before him, though he had never wondered how it was produced.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
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