Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rattlebox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rat-tle-box
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

Etymology

From rattle + box.

Inflected Forms

rattleboxes (plural)

Synonyms

crotalaria

Questions

What does rattlebox mean?: A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
Where does rattlebox come from?: From rattle + box.

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