cockscomb

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The comb of a rooster.
• noun The cap of a jester, decorated to resemble the comb of a rooster.
• noun An annual plant (Celosia argentea) widely cultivated for its showy, fan-shaped or plumelike clusters of red or yellow flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The comb or caruncle of a cock.
• noun A name given to flowering plants of various genera.
• noun A kind of oyster, Ostræa cristagalli, having both valves plaited. Also called cockscomb-oyster. E. P. Wright.
• noun In anatomy, the crista galli of the ethmoid bone. See crista.
• noun In lace-making, a bride. See bride, 2.
• noun A fop; a vain silly fellow: in this sense usually written coxcomb (which see).
• noun Nautical, a notched cleat on the yard-arm of a vessel to facilitate hauling out the reef-earings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun See coxcomb.
• noun (Bot.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The fleshy red crest of a rooster
• noun A red cap once worn by court jesters
• noun An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers
• noun archaic A conceited dandy
• noun nautical A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
• noun the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
• noun garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
• noun a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments