stridulation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together. countable,uncountable
    — The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.

词形变化

stridulations plural

词源

1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).
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