cymbal
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The research team anticipates that through bioinspiration, aeroelastic tymbals will encourage novel developments in the context of morphing structures, acoustic structural monitoring and soft robotics.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
These insects can generate exceptionally loud sounds by rapidly buckling and unbuckling drumlike structures on their bodies called tymbals.
From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2022
Today we know that cicadas sing with internal membranes called tymbals and that the Earth does orbit the sun, as Galileo claimed.
From Scientific American • Jul. 9, 2021
They produce sound with membranes called tymbals, and their hollow abdomens amplify the call, but some of the details are still a mystery.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2021
The trumpets and tymbals speak warning; a profound silence falls upon the crowd for an instant, and then from a side passage enters the cavalcade we have awaited—enters to a stately martial march.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
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