crotalaria Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Crot`a*la"ri*a noun
Etymology
NL. See Crotalum.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. ✍ Crotalaria juncea furnishes the fiber called sunn or Bombay hemp.

Webster 1913