Noun
The fleshy red crest of a rooster.
A red cap once worn by court jesters.
A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia).
An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers.
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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.
A conceited dandy.
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A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed.
Noun
garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
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a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
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a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
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the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
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