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Word: cockscomb (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An annual garden plant, ''Celosia cristata'', having showy red clusters of flowers
  • archaic A conceited dandy
  • A red cap once worn by court jesters
  • rfv-sensenautical A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
  • The fleshy red crest of a rooster

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