cockscomb

English

Alternative forms

• coxcomb

Noun

cockscomb (plural cockscombs)

1. The fleshy red crest of a rooster
2. A red cap once worn by court jesters
3. An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi

     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.

4. (archaic) A conceited dandy
5. (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

Translations

fleshy red crest of a rooster

• Bulgarian: гребен (bg) (greben) m
• Czech: hřebínek (cs) m
• Danish: hanekam (da) c
• Faroese: reykur (fo) m
• German: Hahnenkamm (de) m

• Greek: λειρί (el) (lirí) n
• Hungarian: kakastaréj (hu)
• Polish: grzebień (pl) m
• Slovak: hrebienok (sk) m

An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata,

• Bulgarian: петльов гребен