Stridulation (Noun)
Meaning
A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The loud stridulation of the crickets filled the air on that warm summer evening.
- Some insects, like grasshoppers and crickets, use stridulation to communicate with each other.
- The sound of stridulation from the katydids in the nearby woods was almost deafening.
- Scientists study the stridulation patterns of different insect species to better understand their behavior.
- The male cicada's loud stridulation was a call to attract a female mate.