cockscombs

Noun

• garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
• a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
• a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
• plural of cockscomb

Synonyms

Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, cockscomb, comb, common cockscomb, coxcomb