Zool. [f. L. soni- (see next) + -FACTION.] The production of sound, on the part of insects, by other means than the vocal organs.
1884–5. Standard Nat. Hist., II. 307. A mode of sonifaction … similar to that where a boy runs along a fence pushing a stick against the pickets. Ibid., 366. Sonifaction is not confined to imagos.
