Usually means: Colorful, crested flower resembling rooster.
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  1. cockscomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockscomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cockscomb: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cockscomb: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cockscomb, cockscomb: Wordnik
  6. cockscomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cockscomb: Wiktionary
  8. cockscomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cockscomb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cockscomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cockscomb, cockscomb: Dictionary.com
  12. Cockscomb (Tuolumne Meadows), Cockscomb (disambiguation), Cockscomb (mountain), Cockscomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cockscomb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cockscomb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cockscomb: Rhymezone
  16. Cockscomb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cockscomb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cockscomb: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cockscomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cockscomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cockscomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  22. cockscomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cockscomb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockscomb: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cockscomb: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The fleshy red crest of a rooster
noun:  A red cap once worn by court jesters
noun:  A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
noun:  An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
noun:  (archaic) A conceited dandy
noun:  (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

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