cockscomb

English

Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata

Alternative forms

• cock's comb
• cock's-comb (archaic)
• coxcomb

Etymology

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

Noun

cockscomb (plural cockscombs)

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
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi:

     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. (archaic) A conceited dandy
6. (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

Derived terms

• cockscombed
• common cockscomb (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata)
• garden cockscomb (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata)
• plumed cockscomb (Celosia argentea)
• silver cockscomb (Celosia argentea)
• yellow cockscomb (Rhinanthus crista-galli)

Translations

fleshy red crest of a rooster

• Amis: 'adiping
• Armenian: կատար (hy) (katar)
• Assamese: জঁ (zõ)
• Bulgarian: гребен (bg) m (greben)
• Burmese: ကြက်မောက် (my) (krakmauk)
• Catalan: cresta de gall f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雞冠／鸡冠 (gai¹ gun¹)

  Mandarin: 雞冠／鸡冠 (zh) (jīguàn)

• Czech: hřebínek (cs) m
• Danish: hanekam c
• Dutch: hanenkam (nl) m
• Faroese: reykur (fo) m
• Finnish: kukonharja (fi), harjaheltta
• French: crête de coq (fr) f
• German: Hahnenkamm (de) m
• Greek: λειρί (el) n (leirí)
• Hawaiian: lepe
• Hebrew: כַּרְבֹּלֶת (he) f (karbólet)
• Hungarian: kakastaréj (hu)
• Irish: círín coiligh m
• Japanese: 鶏冠 (ja) (とさか, tosaka)
• Kapampangan: palung
• Latin: crista f
• Macedonian: кикиришка f (kikiriška)
• Malay: balung (ms)
• Ottoman Turkish: خروس ایبكی (horos ibiği)
• Persian: بلوچ (fa) (boluč)
• Polish: grzebień (pl) m
• Portuguese: crista (pt) f
• Romanian: creastă (ro) f
• Russian: гре́бень (ru) m (grébenʹ), петуши́ный гре́бень m (petušínyj grébenʹ), гребешо́к (ru) m (grebešók)
• Slovak: hrebienok m
• Spanish: cresta (es) f
• Tagalog: palong
• Thai: หงอนไก่ (ngɔ̌ɔn-gài)
• Turkish: horoz ibiği (tr)
• Tày: hon cáy
• Vietnamese: mào gà (vi)
• Welsh: crib ceiliog m, cribell f

red cap once worn by court jesters

• Danish: narrehat c
• Finnish: narrinhattu

Rhinanthus minor — see yellow rattle

Celosia cristata

• Bulgarian: петльов гребен (petljov greben)
• Burmese: ကြက်မောက်ပန်း (krakmaukpan:), ကြက်မောက် (my) (krakmauk)
• Catalan: cresta de gall f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞冠花／鸡冠花 (zh) (jīguānhuā)

• Finnish: kukonharja (fi)
• German: Hahnenkamm (de) m, Silber-Brandschopf m
• Hawaiian: lepeamoa
• Indonesian: jengger ayam (id)
• Japanese: 鶏頭 (ja) (ケイトウ, keitō)
• Korean: 맨드라미 (maendeurami)
• Ottoman Turkish: خروس ایبكی (horos ibiği)
• Portuguese: crista-de-galo (pt) f
• Thai: ดอกหงอนไก่ (dɔ̀ɔk-ngɔ̌ɔn-gài)
• Tày: bjoóc hon cáy
• Vietnamese: hoa mào gà
• Welsh: crib ceiliog m