garden cockscomb

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garden cockscomb - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cockscomb \Cocks"comb`\ (k[o^]ks"k[=o]m`), n. [1st cock, n. +
     comb crest.]
     1. See Coxcomb.
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     2. (Bot.) 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.
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