Stridulous Definition
strĭjə-ləs
adjective
Making a shrill grating or chirping sound.
Webster's New World
Relating to or characterized by stridor.
American Heritage Medicine
Origin of Stridulous
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From Latin stridulus (“creaking, giving a shrill sound"), from stridere (“to utter an inarticulate sound, creak, grate").
From Wiktionary
From Latin strīdulus from strīdēre to make harsh sounds ultimately of imitative origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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