plangent |ˈplanjənt|adjective chiefly poetic/literary(of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy.DERIVATIVESplangency nounplangently adverbORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin plangent-‘lamenting,’ from the verb plangere.
I wonder, is a bullfrog's mating call melancholy enough to be called plangent?
New word to me!
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