common cockscomb

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   garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers

   SynonymscockscombCelosia cristataCelosia argentea cristata

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Questions about common cockscomb

What does common cockscomb mean?

common cockscomb means "garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers".

What is another word for common cockscomb?

Close synonyms include cockscomb, Celosia cristata, 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 common cockscomb a common word?

common cockscomb 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.