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  1. n. Plural form of stridulation.

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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

  • “For all the confusion they might inspire, I love the stridulations of orthoptera (their technical name that means "rigid winged").”

    The Guardian: Country diary

  • “The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.”

    Friday Flash: The Moth Chatter Lily

  • “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.”

    The Audacity of Hopelessness

  • “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 Line Of Best Fit

  • “The Pak’shree, by contrast, could speak Federation Standard by means of an electronic vocoder that transformed her movements and mouthpart stridulations into humanoid-intelligible speech.”

    Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire

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