meaning of cocks
1. See Coxcomb.
2. 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.
Related Words
cockscomb | cockshead | cockshut | cockshy | cockspur | cocksure | cockswain |
