stridulation

Significat (Anglès)

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

Sinònims

chirp

squeak

stridulate

squeakiness

Traduccions

stridulation

stridulazione

τεράτισμα

τερέτισμα

τσίρισμα

estridulación

Etimologia (Anglès)

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”).