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CHATTERBOX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chatterbox mean? 

CHATTERBOX (noun)
  The noun CHATTERBOX has 2 senses:

1. orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leafplay

2. an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talkerplay

  Familiarity information: CHATTERBOX used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHATTERBOX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chatterbox; Epipactis gigantea; giant helleborine; stream orchid

Hypernyms ("chatterbox" is a kind of...):

helleborine (any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis)

Holonyms ("chatterbox" is a member of...):

Epipactis; genus Epipactis (genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers)


Sense 2

Meaning:

An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

babbler; chatterbox; chatterer; magpie; prater; spouter

Hypernyms ("chatterbox" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))


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