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A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: noise
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”).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
صَرِير
(ṣarīr)
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Bulgarian:
цвърчене
(cvǎrčene)
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Catalan:
estridulació
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Dutch:
stridulatie
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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French:
stridulation
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Galician:
estridulación
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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German:
Stridulation
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Hebrew:
צִרְצוּר
(tsirtsúr)
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Hungarian:
striduláció
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Indonesian:
stridulasi
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Latin:
stridulatio
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Malay:
stridulasi
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Māori:
kitā
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Persian:
جیرجیر
(jirjir)
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Polish:
strydulacja
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Portuguese:
estridulação
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Russian:
стридуляци́я
(striduljacíja)
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Slovak:
stridulácia
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Slovene:
stridulácija
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Spanish:
estridulación
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
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Swedish:
stridulation
— chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers
