| NOUN | event | stridulation | a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together |
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| Meaning | A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together. | |
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| Broader | noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
| Spanish | chasqueo, estridulación | |
| Catalan | estridulación | |
| Verbs | stridulate | make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures |
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