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Cockscomb   Listen
noun
Cockscomb  n.  
1.
See Coxcomb.
2.
(Bot.) 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.





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"Cockscomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... that's nothing. Only a bloody cockscomb. Come, be swift, Or, if thou wert a fox, thou'dst never slip ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes


Words linked to "Cockscomb" :   cap, common cockscomb, sheik, swell, herb, gallinacean, crest, beau, dude, fashion plate, gallinaceous bird, comb


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