Meaning

7 senses
  1. A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.

  2. An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), whose ripe seeds rattle in the inflated pod.

    any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops

  3. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.

  4. An ornamental shrub (Sesbania punicea) native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

  5. Any species of Rhinanthus, a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants.

  6. Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.

  7. A species of moth, (Utetheisa ornatrix), that feeds on Crotalaria.

Origin

From rattle + box.

From rattle + box.

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Forms

plural: rattleboxes
Singularrattlebox
Pluralrattleboxes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops:crotalaria

See also

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