stridulous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: strid=u=lous

CIDE DICTIONARY

stridulous, a. [L. stridulus. See Strident.].

 Making a shrill, creaking sound.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
"The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart."  [1913 Webster]

Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnœa, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

ROGET THESAURUS

stridulous

Stridor

N stridor, creak, creaking, discord, stridor, roughness, sharpness cacophony, cacoepy, acute note, high note, soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny trumpet, voce di testa, creaking, stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous, rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow, sharp, high, acute, shrill, trumpet-toned, piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned, cracked, discordant, cacophonous.