celosia cristata

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   garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers

   Synonymscockscombcommon cockscombCelosia argentea cristata

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Questions about celosia cristata

What does celosia cristata mean?

celosia cristata means "garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers".

What is another word for celosia cristata?

Close synonyms include cockscomb, common cockscomb, Celosia argentea cristata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is celosia cristata a common word?

celosia cristata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.