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1. Garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
   - common cockscomb, Celosia cristata, Celosia argentea cristata
    
2. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
   - coxcomb
    
3. A cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
   - coxcomb
    
4. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
   - comb, coxcomb

Derived forms: cockscombs

Type of: beau [archaic], cap, clotheshorse [informal], crest, dandy, dude [informal], fashion plate, fop, gallant [archaic], herb, herbaceous plant, swell [informal]

Part of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

Encyclopedia: Cockscomb, American Samoa