stridulation

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

estridulación

Sinónimos

chirp

squeak

stridulate

squeakiness

Traducciones

stridulation

stridulazione

τεράτισμα

τερέτισμα

τσίρισμα

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).