1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.
2. A fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds; SYN. cockscomb, coxcomb.
3. Any of several devices for straightening fibers.
4. Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.