cockscomb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fleshy red crest of a rooster.
  2. A red cap once worn by court jesters.
  3. A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia).
  4. An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers.
    — She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.
  5. A conceited dandy. archaic
  6. A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed.

词形变化

cockscombs plural cock's comb alternative cock's-comb alternative coxcomb alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cockscombed common cockscomb garden cockscomb plumed cockscomb silver cockscomb yellow cockscomb

词源

From Middle English cokkes comb; equivalent to cock + -s- + comb.
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