chatterbox

1. 1.

   orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf

   Synonymsstream orchidgiant helleborineEpipactis gigantea

   Broaderhelleborine

   Part ofEpipactis
2. 2.

   an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

   Synonymschattererbabblerpratermagpiespouter

   Broaderspeaker

Other forms of chatterbox

plural

chatterboxes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chatterbox

What does chatterbox mean?

chatterbox means "orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chatterbox?

chatterbox has 3 syllables: chat-ter-box. The stress falls on "chat".

What is another word for chatterbox?

Close synonyms include stream orchid, giant helleborine, Epipactis gigantea, chatterer, babbler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chatterbox a common word?

chatterbox is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.