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cockscomb

Noun

cocks=comb

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cockscomb(n = noun.plant) celosia argentea cristata, celosia cristata, common cockscomb - garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers; Array

is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant

cockscomb(n = noun.person) coxcomb - a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments; Array

is a kind of beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell

cockscomb(n = noun.artifact) coxcomb - a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red; Array

is a kind of cap

cockscomb(n = noun.animal) comb, coxcomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds; Array

is a kind of crest

is a part of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

cockscomb, n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.].

See Coxcomb. [1913 Webster]
A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli. [1913 Webster]

cockscomb, n.
1 the crest or comb of a cock.
2 a garden plant Celosia cristata, with a terminal plume of tiny white or red flowers.

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