rattleweed
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- noun
- /ˈrætəlˌwiːd/
- Farmers often recognize rattleweed by the distinctive sound of its seed pods.
Examples
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In late summer, the dry rattleweed plants could be heard rustling in the breeze.
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The children shook the rattleweed pods and laughed at the noise they made.
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The rattleweed swayed gently in the breeze.
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Can you hear the sound of the rattleweed?
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As the wind blew through the field, the rattleweed made a pleasant rattling sound.
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The children giggled as they played with a bunch of rattleweed, shaking it to hear the noise.
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Walking through the desert, I could hear the soft rattle of rattleweed in the breeze.
Synonyms
A plant whose swollen seed pods make a shaking sound and that farmers use to feed animals and improve soil
A tropical plant with dry pods that rattle when seeds move
A tropical flowering plant from the Americas with colorful flowers and pods whose seeds rattle when shaken
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rattleweed comes from the two words rattle ('to shake and make a noise') and weed ('a wild plant'), because the plant's dry seed pods rattle in the wind, so the name points to the noise the plant makes.