cockscomb
pronunciation
How to pronounce cockscomb in British English:
UK ['kɒkskəʊm]
How to pronounce cockscomb in American English:
US ['kɒksˌkoʊm]
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- 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
Word Origin
- cockscomb (n.)
- c. 1400, "comb or crest of a cock," from possessive of cock (n.1) + comb (n.). Meaning "cap worn by a professional fool" is from 1560s; hence "conceited fool" (1560s), a sense passing into the derivative coxcomb. As a plant name, from 1570s.
Example
- 1. Christ church was hidden by cockscomb .
- 2. The influence of different dosage of drought-resistent agent on the growth of cockscomb .
- 3. Studies on the influence of drought - resistent agent of different concentration on the growth of cockscomb .
- 4. Cockscomb area comes outskirt countryside connects analysis of cost of village highway project on the west .
- 5. Rose cockscomb chicken ; microsatellite dna markers ; growth traits ; correlation analysis .