| cockscomb | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. celosia argentea cristata, celosia cristata, cockscomb, common cockscomb | garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers. |
| ~ herb, herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
| n. (person) | 2. cockscomb, coxcomb | a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments. |
| ~ dandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, beau, clotheshorse, dude, sheik, swell | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. cockscomb, coxcomb | a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red. |
| ~ cap | a tight-fitting headdress. |
| n. (animal) | 4. cockscomb, comb, coxcomb | the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds. |
| ~ crest | a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal. |
| ~ gallinacean, gallinaceous bird | heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds. |
| trough | | |
| n. (object) | 1. trough | a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed). |
| ~ natural depression, depression | a sunken or depressed geological formation. |
| ~ swale | a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges). |
| n. (artifact) | 2. gutter, trough | a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater. |
| ~ channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through.; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street" |
| ~ slideway, sloping trough, chute, slide | sloping channel through which things can descend. |
| ~ cullis | a gutter in a roof. |
| ~ gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof, saddleback | a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end. |
| n. (shape) | 3. bowl, trough | a concave shape with an open top. |
| ~ concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | a shape that curves or bends inward. |
| n. (possession) | 4. public treasury, till, trough | a treasury for government funds. |
| ~ exchequer, treasury | the funds of a government or institution or individual. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. trough | a long narrow shallow receptacle. |
| ~ receptacle | a container that is used to put or keep things in. |
| ~ cradle, rocker | a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. manger, trough | a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed. |
| ~ bunk, feed bunk | a long trough for feeding cattle. |
| ~ container | any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another). |
| wattle | | |
| n. (body) | 1. lappet, wattle | a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards. |
| ~ caruncle, caruncula | an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. wattle | framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence. |
| ~ framework | a structure supporting or containing something. |
| n. (plant) | 3. wattle | any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle. |
| ~ acacia | any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia. |
| ~ acacia auriculiformis, black wattle | Australian tree that yields tanning materials. |
| ~ acacia cambegei, gidgee, stinking wattle | scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms. |
| ~ acacia dealbata, mimosa, silver wattle | evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers. |
| ~ acacia pycnantha, golden wattle | shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental. |
| v. (creation) | 4. wattle | build of or with wattle. |
| ~ construction, building | the act of constructing something.; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" |
| ~ build, construct, make | make by combining materials and parts.; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" |
| v. (contact) | 5. wattle | interlace to form wattle. |
| ~ enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine, entwine | spin,wind, or twist together.; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts" |
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