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stridulation

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stridulation [‚strij·ə′lā·shən]
(invertebrate zoology)
Creaking and other audible sounds made by certain insects, produced by rubbing various parts of the body together.
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Single peaks were detected in all recordings, collections of peaks which sounded like grinding were detected in 95% of recordings, and stridulation was detected in 14%.
Zoology and entomology by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
The very language of the books refuses simplicity, Philip Pullman's diction including, without explanation, words such as evanescent, sanguine, calumny, nimbus, stridulation and decoction.
Borrowing from Paradise Lost by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Although crickets and other musical insects rasp a scraper over a fibbed surface, scientists had never before demonstrated such stridulation in a vertebrate, say Bostwick and Richard Prum of Yale University in the July 29 Science.
Wing ding: bird rubs feathers for cricketlike song by Milius, S. / Science News
 
 
 
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