"stridulation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stridulations [plural]
Etymology: 1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|strīdulus||giving a shrill sound, creaking}} Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} stridulation (countable and uncountable, plural stridulations)
  1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: stridulate, stridulous Translations (chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers): صَرِير (ṣarīr) [masculine] (Arabic), цвърчене (cvǎrčene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), estridulació [feminine] (Catalan), stridulatie [feminine] (Dutch), stridulation [feminine] (French), estridulación [feminine] (Galician), Stridulation [feminine] (German), צִרְצוּר (tsirtsúr) [masculine] (Hebrew), striduláció (Hungarian), stridulasi (Indonesian), stridulatio [feminine] (Latin), stridulasi (Malay), kitā (Maori), جیرجیر (jirjir) (Persian), strydulacja [feminine] (Polish), estridulação [feminine] (Portuguese), стридуляци́я (striduljacíja) [feminine] (Russian), stridulácia [feminine] (Slovak), stridulácija [feminine] (Slovene), estridulación [feminine] (Spanish), stridulation [common-gender] (Swedish)

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