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

n. The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.

n. The noise itself.

n. The act, process, or function of stridulating; the power of so doing, or the thin, harsh, creaking noise thus produced; a shrilling.

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

"Mary Ball (1812-1892) discovered the underwater stridulation of the Notonectidæ"

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