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What does stridulation mean?

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Noun
  1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
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The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.
In all species of Laupala, the male song structure is simple, consisting of a rhythmic train of pulses produced during courtship by stridulation of the forewings.
Males of these groups produce sounds by stridulation, which usually involves rubbing the covers of the wings together in a particular way.
As with birdsong and insect stridulation, impressive amounts of information are packed into virtually indistinguishable sounds.
Many biologists have studied the neural control of sound production since Huber's pioneering work in the 1950s on command systems for stridulation in crickets.
It is uproarious, a universal stridulation, as Dr. Edes might put it.

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