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Cockscomb

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fleshy red crest of a rooster
  2. 2
    the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds wordnet
  3. 3
    A red cap once worn by court jesters
  4. 4
    a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red wordnet
  5. 5
    A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
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  1. 6
    a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments wordnet
  2. 7
    An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers

    "She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket."

  3. 8
    garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers wordnet
  4. 9
    A conceited dandy archaic
  5. 10
    A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

Etymology

From Middle English cokkes comb; equivalent to cock + -s- + comb.

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