stridulation

IPA: strˈɪdʒʌɫˈeɪʃʌn

A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.

Examples of "stridulation" in Sentences

Stridulation in the leaf insect.
The proper term for this is stridulation.
This method of making sound is called stridulation.
In some species females are also capable of stridulation.
Stridulation seems to be more common in old world species.
I'm not sure if this is Stridulation but it might be worth a check.
Mary Ball (1812-1892) discovered the underwater stridulation of the Notonectidæ
His voice becomes a mere stridulation for the stating of formula; he seems deaf to all but properly enunciated problems.
Another nice little adaptive feature of H. nigriceps is that some of the quills have become modified into an organ of stridulation.
After all, where else would I be able to brag about the happiness I found in finally hearing what the defensive stridulation of a dung beetle sounds like?
The shrill, small voice of the sunbird is almost indistinguishable from the stridulation of one of the leaf insects, which makes its amorous noises in the evening as well as during the sunny hours.
That he was not the only one to respond with an involuntary stridulation of shock was shown by the number of abrasive chirrups that echoed in close succession through the various individual workstations.
The woods were very quiet, except for a soft scratching sound in the distance that might have been the stridulation of some insect—but Kirk immediately put that thought away; on a new planet, there was no predicting anything at all without data, and your suppositions could kill you without warning.