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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rattlebox (plural rattleboxes)
- A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
- An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), whose ripe seeds rattle in the inflated pod.
- 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.