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Значения термина cockscomb на английском

португальский
crista
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The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.

        crista
        португальский
        celosia cristata

        Garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers.

              celosia cristata
              Использование термина cockscomb на английском
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              The border is composed of festoons decorated with cockscomb and sprays of flowers.
              Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them
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              Powdered cockscomb, desiccated pigeon hearts, and who knows what other rot.
              The Oracle Glass
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              I saw thick white hair, centered and splayed like a cockscomb.
              Fatal Voyage
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              From the shape of the flames this form of burner received the name "cockscomb."
              Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
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              He was a cockscomb, he was an ass; but he preferred the West of England to Italy.
              In a Green Shade / A Country Commentary
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              If an unmodified Celosia could be got, it would be well to test with the modified cockscomb.
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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              Frequent jelly-like substances floating on the ocean of various colours formed like a cockscomb commonly called Portuguese men-of-war.
              A Journey to America in 1834
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              The plant is called Rhinanthus minor but it is more commonly known as cockscomb or little yellow rattle.
              BBC
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              John would have liked to poke the cockscomb in the eye with one of his gaudy mantle brooches.
              The viking takes a knight
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              The trees were just beginning to bud, Ki noted, but crocus and blue cockscomb brightened the muddy fields and ditches.
              Hidden Warrior
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              Especially there was clover, waving patches of cockscomb clover, and purple clover, and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.
              The Hobbit
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              His hair was cut short, with the exception of a ridge on the top which ran stem to stern, like a cockscomb.
              Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Sta...
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              Getting tired, I took out my sketch-book and drew Lubuga, the pet, which amused the king immensely as he recognised her cockscomb.
              The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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              There were bright cockscomb and in a swamp corner of the foreyard a great bunch of cat-o'-nine tails straight as corn stalks.
              Blue Ridge Country
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              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.
              Tropic Days
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              She came up over Cockscomb Bridge, one of the city's most ancient edifices.
              Perdido Street Station
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              португальский
              cristacelosia cristata
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