stridulation

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stridulation has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

stridulationn. 
     The act of stridulating.  [1913 Webster]
    " The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stridulation

animal noise, bark, barking, birdcall, call, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, clang, creak, crick, cry, grunt, howl, howling, mating call, note, ululation, woodnote

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