STRIDULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stridulation mean? 

• STRIDULATION (noun)
  The noun STRIDULATION has 1 sense:

1. a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together

  Familiarity information: STRIDULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIDULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("stridulation" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

stridulate (make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures)