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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 leaf
2. an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
Familiarity information: CHATTERBOX used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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