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stridulate, stridulatory
1. To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together; as certain insects do.
2. The sounds made by crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, and other summertime insects when they rub special body parts together to make their shrill sounds.
2. The sounds made by crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, and other summertime insects when they rub special body parts together to make their shrill sounds.
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stridu-, strid-
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