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echeme.

A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛk.iːm/
  1. A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).

Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἤχημα (ḗkhēma, “a sound”), from ἠχέω (ēkhéō, “I make sound, I chirp”) + -μᾰ (-mă, forming nouns form verbal stems). Introduced by Broughton (1976).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.