1. the comb of a rooster.
2. the cap of a jester, decorated to resemble the comb of a rooster.
3. an annual plant (celosia cristata) widely cultivated for its showy, fan-shaped or plumelike clusters of red or yellow flowers. also called celosia.
4. obsolete variant of coxcomb.

1. the fleshy red crest of a rooster
2. A red cap once worn by court jesters
3. an annual garden plant, celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers
4. A conceited dandy
5. A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

1. see coxcomb.
2. A plant (celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus crista-galli, and the Onobrychis crista-galli.

1. the comb or caruncle of a cock.
2. A name given to flowering plants of various genera.
3. A kind of oyster, Ostræa cristagalli, having both valves plaited. also called cockscomb-oyster. E. P. wright.
4. in anatomy, the crista galli of the ethmoid bone. see crista.
5. in lace-making, a bride. see bride, 2.
6. A fop; a vain silly fellow: in this sense usually written coxcomb (which see).
7. nautical, a notched cleat on the yard-arm of a vessel to facilitate hauling out the reef-earings.

1. a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
2. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
3. garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
4. a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments