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countable and uncountable, plural stridulations
A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together. quotations examples
The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.
1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons