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noun

Cockscomb n.

See Coxcomb.

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cockscomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... Gentlemen took off their coats and took up their battledores. Their gibes and quirks are all printed in my edition, and are better reading than the book itself. Coryat was a cockscomb and scorned a straight sentence. A rule of his was: "Never use one adjective if three will do." So far as I know he was the first Englishman who travelled for the fun or the glory of the thing, unless Fynes Moryson anticipated him ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

Words linked to "Cockscomb" : dude, fashion plate, herb, comb, herbaceous plant, gallinaceous bird, clotheshorse, gallinacean, Celosia argentea cristata, fop, gallant, Celosia cristata