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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”).

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stridulation (countable and uncountable, plural stridulations)

1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
   • 1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons:
     The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.

• stridulate
• stridulous
• IPA(key): /stʁi.dy.la.sjɔ̃/

stridulation f (plural stridulations)

1. stridulation

• striduler

• “stridulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012