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Words related to comb

Related / Similar Words: combing, cockscomb, coxcomb, comb out, disentangle, ransack

Definition:

the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb";

the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds;

ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore;

a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair;

any of several tools for straightening fibers;

a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl;

smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool";

search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child";

straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool";

Hyponyms: comb-out, teasing, fine-tooth comb, fine-toothed comb, hatchel, heckle, pocketcomb, pocket comb, currycomb, slick, slick down, sleek down, tease, fluff, hackle

Part Meronyms: gallinaceous bird, gallinacean, ctenophore, comb jelly, cock, rooster, turkey cock, gobbler, tom, tom turkey

Derivational Morphology: comb out, disentangle, unsnarling, untangling, disentanglement, extrication, comb-out, teasing, combing, ransacking, rummage

Language Translations:
Albanian: krehër		Breton: krib and kribenn
Bulgarian: гребен		Catalan: pinta
Croatian: češalj		Dutch: kam
Finnish: harjaheltta and kampa		French: peigne
German: Kamm		Hebrew: מסרק
Hungarian: fésű		Indonesian: sisir
Interlingua: pectine		Italian: cresta and pettine
Japanese: 櫛		Korean: 볏 and 빗
Latin: pecten		Malay: sikat
Persian: شانه		Polish: grzebień
Portuguese: pente		Romanian: pieptene
Russian: гребень and расчёска		Serbian: češalj
Slovene: glavnik and greben		Spanish: cresta and peine
Swedish: kam		Telugu: దువ్వెన
Vietnamese: mào

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