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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.
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