a. [f. L. strīdul-us (see next) + -ENT. Cf. STRIDULANT a.] = next.
1874. Coues, Birds N. W., 118. They … have a not displeasing stridulent sound, from mingling of the weak chirrups from so many throats.
1880. Ruskin, in 19th Cent., June, 957. Coarse, stridulent, and, in the ordinary sense of the phrase, ‘broad’ forms of utterance, are not dialects at all.
