The cockerel's splendid red cockscomb is thought to play a part in determining gender and breed.
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Cockscomb
Synonyms for "cockscomb" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
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Related words (31)
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2 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
63 translations across 41 languages.
Amis
1 entries- 'adiping noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Armenian
1 entries- կատար noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Assamese
1 entries- জঁ noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гребен noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- петльов гребен noun (Celosia cristata)
Burmese
3 entries- ကြက်မောက် noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- ကြက်မောက် noun (Celosia cristata)
- ကြက်မောက်ပန်း noun (Celosia cristata)
Catalan
2 entries- cresta de gall noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- cresta de gall noun (Celosia cristata)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 雞冠 /鸡冠 noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 雞冠 /鸡冠 noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- 雞冠花 /鸡冠花 noun (Celosia cristata)
Czech
1 entries- hřebínek noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Danish
2 entries- hanekam noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- narrehat noun (red cap once worn by court jesters)
Dutch
1 entries- hanenkam noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Faroese
1 entries- reykur noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Finnish
4 entries- harjaheltta noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- kukonharja noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- kukonharja noun (Celosia cristata)
- narrinhattu noun (red cap once worn by court jesters)
French
1 entries- crête de coq noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
German
3 entries- Hahnenkamm noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- Hahnenkamm noun (Celosia cristata)
- Silber-Brandschopf noun (Celosia cristata)
Greek
1 entries- λειρί noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Hawaiian
2 entries- lepe noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- lepeamoa noun (Celosia cristata)
Hebrew
1 entries- כַּרְבֹּלֶת noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Hungarian
1 entries- kakastaréj noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Indonesian
1 entries- jengger ayam noun (Celosia cristata)
Irish
1 entries- círín coiligh noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Japanese
2 entries- 鶏冠 noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- 鶏頭 noun (Celosia cristata)
Kapampangan
1 entries- palung noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Korean
1 entries- 맨드라미 noun (Celosia cristata)
Latin
1 entries- crista noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Macedonian
1 entries- кикиришка noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Malay
1 entries- balung noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خروس ایبكی noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- خروس ایبكی noun (Celosia cristata)
Persian
1 entries- بلوچ noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Polish
1 entries- grzebień noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Portuguese
2 entries- crista noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- crista-de-galo noun (Celosia cristata)
Romanian
1 entries- creastă noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Russian
3 entries- гре́бень noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- гребешо́к noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- петуши́ный гре́бень noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Slovak
1 entries- hrebienok noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Spanish
1 entries- cresta noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Tagalog
1 entries- palong noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Thai
2 entries- ดอกหงอนไก่ noun (Celosia cristata)
- หงอนไก่ noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Turkish
1 entries- horoz ibiği noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Tày
2 entries- bjoóc hon cáy noun (Celosia cristata)
- hon cáy noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hoa mào gà noun (Celosia cristata)
- mào gà noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Welsh
3 entries- crib ceiliog noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
- crib ceiliog noun (Celosia cristata)
- cribell noun (fleshy red crest of a rooster)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
And some of the seeds were big flat beans, or little long round beans; and some, like the sweet-peas, were very round, like shot; and some, like the cockscomb seeds, were tiny and shiny and black and so slippery that Prue lost more than she got in her envelope, though she got enough, for there is such a lot of seed on a cockscomb.
Source: tatoeba (12117528)
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.
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