Meanings of cockscomb in English

The border is composed of festoons decorated with cockscomb and sprays of flowers.

Powdered cockscomb, desiccated pigeon hearts, and who knows what other rot.

I saw thick white hair, centered and splayed like a cockscomb.

From the shape of the flames this form of burner received the name "cockscomb."

He was a cockscomb, he was an ass; but he preferred the West of England to Italy.

If an unmodified Celosia could be got, it would be well to test with the modified cockscomb.

Frequent jelly-like substances floating on the ocean of various colours formed like a cockscomb commonly called Portuguese men-of-war.

The plant is called Rhinanthus minor but it is more commonly known as cockscomb or little yellow rattle.

John would have liked to poke the cockscomb in the eye with one of his gaudy mantle brooches.

The trees were just beginning to bud, Ki noted, but crocus and blue cockscomb brightened the muddy fields and ditches.

Especially there was clover, waving patches of cockscomb clover, and purple clover, and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.

His hair was cut short, with the exception of a ridge on the top which ran stem to stern, like a cockscomb.

Getting tired, I took out my sketch-book and drew Lubuga, the pet, which amused the king immensely as he recognised her cockscomb.

There were bright cockscomb and in a swamp corner of the foreyard a great bunch of cat-o'-nine tails straight as corn stalks.

Unlike some others of the family, the cockscomb oyster, though not objecting to the near-by presence of its kind, seems to hate a crowd.

She came up over Cockscomb Bridge, one of the city's most ancient edifices.