stridulation
Americannoun
plural
stridulationsExample 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
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
Oryctes, stridulation of; sexual differences in the stridulant organs of.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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