rattle-top

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   North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia

   Synonymsblack cohoshblack snakerootCimicifuga racemosa

   Broaderbugbane

Questions about rattle-top

What does rattle-top mean?

rattle-top means "North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia".

How many syllables are in rattle-top?

rattle-top has 3 syllables: ratt-le--top. The stress falls on "ratt".

What is another word for rattle-top?

Close synonyms include black cohosh, black snakeroot, Cimicifuga racemosa. 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 rattle-top a common word?

rattle-top is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.