Meanings
plural rattleboxes
- A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
- Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
- An ornamental shrub (Sesbania punicea) native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
- Any species of Rhinanthus, a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants.
- Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
- A species of moth, (Utetheisa ornatrix), that feeds on Crotalaria.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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rattlebox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattlebox
“rattlebox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattlebox. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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