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plural cockscombs
The fleshy red crest of a rooster examples
A red cap once worn by court jesters examples
A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia) examples
An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers quotations examples
She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi
(archaic) A conceited dandy
(nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed examples