comb (redirected from Combes)

comb

1. a tool or machine that separates, cleans, and straightens wool, cotton, etc.

2. the fleshy deeply serrated outgrowth on the top of the heads of certain birds, esp the domestic fowl

3. a currycomb

4. a honeycomb

5. the row of fused cilia in a ctenophore

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comb [kōm]

(design engineering)

drag

(invertebrate zoology)

A system of hexagonal cells constructed of beeswax by a colony of bees.

A comblike swimming plate in ctenophores.

(vertebrate zoology)

A crest of naked tissue on the head of many male fowl.

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comb

1. Combing, 1.

2. A drag, 1.

3. Any tool used to produce combing, 2, 3.

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COMB.

On drawings, abbr. for “combination.”