noun. The comb of a rooster.

noun. The cap of a jester, decorated to resemble the comb of a rooster.

noun. An annual plant (Celosia argentea) widely cultivated for its showy, fan-shaped or plumelike clusters of red or yellow flowers.

noun. undefined

noun. The comb or caruncle of a cock.

noun. A name given to flowering plants of various genera.

noun. A kind of oyster, Ostræa cristagalli, having both valves plaited. Also called cockscomb-oyster. E. P. Wright.

noun. In anatomy, the crista galli of the ethmoid bone. See crista.

noun. In lace-making, a bride. See bride, 2.

noun. A fop; a vain silly fellow: in this sense usually written coxcomb (which see).

noun. Nautical, a notched cleat on the yard-arm of a vessel to facilitate hauling out the reef-earings.

noun. See coxcomb.

noun. 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.

noun. The fleshy red crest of a rooster

noun. A red cap once worn by court jesters

noun. An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers

noun. A conceited dandy

noun. A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

noun. a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red

noun. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

noun. garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers

noun. a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments

"The cockscomb is the most widely known, but many white or double flowered varieties were already cultivated at that time."

cockscomb morion  cockscomb pyrites  cockscomb-grass  

Herb  beau  cap  clotheshorse  crest  

Togo  andgosh  callicantzari  canary-bird  carryall  

crest  dandy  

coxcomb  garden cockscomb