stridulation's Usage Examples:

The Locustidae (see Grasshopper, Katydid) have the feelers and often also the ovipositor very elongate; the foot is four-segmented; the ears are placed at the base of the foreshin and the stridulation is due to the friction of a transverse " file " beneath the base of the left forewing over a sharp ridge on the upper aspect of the right.

It has been suggested that the power of stridulation would be advantageous to wood-boring grubs, the sound warning each of the position of its neighbour, so that adjacent burrowers may not get in each other's way.

In some of these insects the wings are so small as to be useless for flight, being modified altogether for stridulation.

Synonyms:

noise,

Antonyms:

regularity, comprehensibility,