Garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers.
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Examples for "cockscomb"
Examples for "cockscomb"
1The border is composed of festoons decorated with cockscomb and sprays of flowers.
2Powdered cockscomb, desiccated pigeon hearts, and who knows what other rot.
3I saw thick white hair, centered and splayed like a cockscomb.
4From the shape of the flames this form of burner received the name "cockscomb."
5He was a cockscomb, he was an ass; but he preferred the West of England to Italy.
Translations for Celosia argentea cristata