Crossword-Solution: COCKSCOMB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cockscomb | n. | See Coxcomb. |
| Cockscomb | n. | 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “COCKSCOMB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Court jester's headpiece | 1 answer |
| celosia | 2 answers |
| Pretentious person | 23 answers |
| CREST ___ | 39 answers |
| Garden plant. | 53 answers |
| ANNUAL plant | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COCKSCOMB (5)
And so farewell, master, and be kind to poor Gurth and his dog Fangs; and let my cockscomb hang in the hall at Rotherwood, in memory that I flung away my life for my master, like a faithful—-fool.” The last word came out with a sort of double expression, betwixt jest and earnest.
Loose-knit, with cropped hair, and a sad priest’s face, under his cockscomb cap, that he could twist like a strip of wet leather.
Edmund Paramor, the senior partner of Paramor and Herring, a clean-shaven man of sixty, with iron-grey hair brushed in a cockscomb off his forehead, greeted him with a smile.
Rose saw at a glance that Dandy deserved his name more than ever, and promptly quenched his vanities by answering, with a provoking laugh, “Then the name of the flower of the family is Cockscomb.” “Ah, ha! who's got it now?” jeered Will.
The hair of his head was cut short, excepting on the top, where it was combed up into a high ridge, running from stem to stern like a cockscomb.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).