rattlebox

Questions about rattlebox

What does rattlebox mean?

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

How many syllables are in rattlebox?

rattlebox has 3 syllables and divides as ratt-le-box under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for rattlebox?

Close synonyms include crotalaria. 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 rattlebox a common word?

rattlebox 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.