Associations to the word «Stridulation»

Wiktionary

STRIDULATION, noun. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.

Dictionary definition

STRIDULATION, noun. A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne