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- noun Plural form of
stridulation .
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Examples
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"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.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.
Friday Flash: The Moth Chatter Lily icy_cobweb 2010
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For all the confusion they might inspire, I love the stridulations of orthoptera (their technical name that means "rigid winged").
Country diary 2010
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The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.
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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.
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Less prone to panic, adult and adolescent thranx nonetheless broke out in alarmed clicks and stridulations, adding to the general confusion.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Their screams and stridulations melted together into a dull ache at the back of his mind.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Their screams and stridulations melted together into a dull ache at the back of his mind.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Less prone to panic, adult and adolescent thranx nonetheless broke out in alarmed clicks and stridulations, adding to the general confusion.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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This time it was supportive stridulations that rose in volume from the other side of the table.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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