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Word: cockscomb
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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
Source: Wiktionary
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