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- n. Plural form of stridulation.
Examples
“Singing" insects, such as crickets, utter sounds called stridulations by rubbing the edge of one forewing called a scraper against a hard bumpy surface called a file on the opposite forewing.”
“For all the confusion they might inspire, I love the stridulations of orthoptera (their technical name that means "rigid winged").”
“The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.”
“Again our choice: Either open up the decay within the system to the light of day and start the process of rebuilding and renewal, or allow the republic-ravening pestilence to continue unchallenged, hence unabated, and let the nation go bughouse crazy as the house comes down around us to the strains of the insect-brain stridulations of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.”
“Less prone to panic, adult and adolescent thranx nonetheless broke out in alarmed clicks and stridulations, adding to the general confusion.”
Diuturnity's Dawn
“Their screams and stridulations melted together into a dull ache at the back of his mind.”
Diuturnity's Dawn
“This time it was supportive stridulations that rose in volume from the other side of the table.”
Dirge
“Temporary Inundation of Sleep By Open Windows' is a case in point: huge, but built from very little, its rolling deep of metallic drones provides a backdrop over which faint outside sounds intrude - distant rain, insect stridulations, the hum of background radiation.”
“The Pakâshree, by contrast, could speak Federation Standard by means of an electronic vocoder that transformed her movements and mouthpart stridulations into humanoid-intelligible speech.”
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