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1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
    
2. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
   - cockscomb, coxcomb
    
3. Any of several tools for straightening fibers
    
4. Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
    
5. The act of drawing a comb through hair
   "his hair needed a comb";
   - combing

1. Straighten with a comb
   "comb your hair"
    
2. Search thoroughly
   "They combed the area for the missing child";
   - ransack
    
3. Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
   "comb the wool"; "comb your hair before dinner";
   - comb out, disentangle

Derived forms: combing, combs, combed

Type of: crest, device, groom, hair care, haircare, hairdressing, neaten, plate, search, straighten, straighten out, tool

Part of: comb jelly, ctenophore, gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

Encyclopedia: Comb