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🌱 A noisy plant 🎶 A seed rattle
rattleweed

rattleweed

9.9
Dried seed pods used as a simple rattle
  • noun
  • US
: crotalaria seca
  • The musician used a dried rattleweed to add a unique sound to the song.

Examples

  • Children enjoyed shaking the rattleweed pods during the harvest festival.

  • The children played with rattleweed during the festival.

  • She decorated her home with bundles of rattleweed for a rustic touch.

  • I found some rattleweed in the garden yesterday.

  • The musician used a dried rattleweed to add a unique sound to the song.

  • Children enjoyed shaking the rattleweed pods during the harvest festival.

  • The children used a bunch of rattleweed as a simple percussion instrument while playing.

Surface Forms

rattleweed singular
rattleweeds plural

Morphology

rattleweed = rattle + weed (semi-transparent) = rattle + weed

The compound suggests a weed associated with rattling, but it does not directly signal the specific sense of the dried seed pods used as a simple instrument.

Etymology

Rattleweed comes from rattle ('to shake and make a noise') and weed ('a wild plant'), and it also names the dried seed pods because people shake them as a simple rattle or musical instrument.