the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Crackling: specifically applied, in pathology, to the pathognomic sound of the lungs in pneumonia.
In entomology, having the power of crepitation.
Word Usage
" The crepitant woods of the Deep South were foreboding enough in daylight, the Spanish moss stringing down from the oaks like the disemboweled spirits of ghosts."