Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rattlebox"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rattlebox \Rat"tle*box`\, n.
1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
2. (Bot.)
(a) An American herb ({Crotalaria sagittalis}), the seeds
of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.
(b) Any species of {Crotalaria}, a genus of
yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded
pods.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rattlebox
n : any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having
inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for
pasture and green-manure crops [syn: {crotalaria}]
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