stridulation

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Synoniemen

chirp

squeak

stridulate

squeakiness

Vertalingen

stridulation

stridulazione

τεράτισμα

τερέτισμα

τσίρισμα

estridulación

Etymologie (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”).