"echeme" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[1976, W. B. Broughton, “Proposal for a new term ‘echeme’ to replace ‘chirp’ in animal acoustics”, in Physiological Entomology, volume 1, number 2, →DOI, pages 103–106:",
          "text": "This new term, then, is echeme, defined as: a first-order assemblage of syllables.",
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          "ref": "1978 July, William Latimer, Aspects of song interaction between the closely related bush cricket genera Platycleis and Metrioptera, DPhil Thesis, City of London Polytechnic (British Library’s microfilm copy), page 44:",
          "text": "The general pattern of the low-frequency sweep is repeated in each echeme and does not appear to change as the insect matures[…].",
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          "ref": "1988, D.R. Ragge, W.J. Reynolds, “The songs and taxonomy of the grasshoppers of the Chorthippus biguttulus group in the Iberian Peninsula (Orthoptera: Acrididae)”, in Journal of Natural History, volume 22, number 4, →DOI, pages 897–929:",
          "text": "[T]he echemes of yersini have a uniform sound, lacking the 'metallic' unevenness characteristic of the echeme-sequences of biguttulus.",
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          "ref": "2021, Wilbur L. Hershberger, “Calling and courtship songs of the rare, robust ground cricket, Allonemobius walkeri”, in Journal of Orthoptera Research, volume 30, number 1, →DOI, pages 81–85:",
          "text": "In sunlight, echemes are shorter, but echeme intervals are longer.",
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        "(bioacoustics, entomology) A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables)."
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      "enpr": "ĕk′ēm",
      "note": "Recommended by Broughton"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛk.iːm/",
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