Definitions for "Stridulation"
The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
The noise itself.
Production of sound by rubbing two structures together. Crickets and katydids stridulate by rubbing scrapers and files together. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing their hind legs against abdomen or tegmina.
Keywords:  act
The act of stridulating.