noun
- the production of shrill sounds by rubbing together certain body parts, especially by insects such as crickets and grasshoppers
Usage: biology; entomology
Examples
- The cricket’s stridulation filled the summer evening air.
- Male grasshoppers use stridulation to attract mates.
- The biologist studied the stridulation patterns of different insect species.
- Stridulation is produced when the insect rubs its wings or legs together.
- The loud stridulation of cicadas could be heard throughout the forest.
- Scientists can identify insect species by analyzing their stridulation frequencies.