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Noun cockscomb has 4 senses
- cockscomb, common cockscomb, Celosia cristata, Celosia argentea cristata - garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
- coxcomb, cockscomb - a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
--2 is a kind of dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
- cockscomb, coxcomb - a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
--3 is a kind of cap
- comb, cockscomb, coxcomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
--4 is a kind of crest
--4 is a part of gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
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