Cockscomb

See Coxcomb.

A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers

the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds