stridulation

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

stridulation

Synonymes

chirp

squeak

stridulate

squeakiness

Traductions

stridulazione

τεράτισμα

τερέτισμα

τσίρισμα

estridulación

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).