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Stridulation

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Noun
  1. 1
    A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together. countable, uncountable

    "The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull."

  2. 2
    a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together wordnet

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”).

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