stridulation

American  

[strij-uh-lay-shuhn] / ˌstrɪdʒ əˈleɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

stridulations

1. the act or sound of stridulating.

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Example Sentences

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

During the monsoon the silence of the night is broken only by the sound of falling raindrops, or the croaking of the frogs, the stridulation of crickets innumerable, and the owlet's feeble call.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas