stridulation

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

chirp

squeak

stridulate

squeakiness

Vertalings

stridulation

stridulazione

τεράτισμα

τερέτισμα

τσίρισμα

estridulación

Etimologie (Engels)

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”).