Plantes du genre Celosia voisine de l'amarante qui compte 50 à 60 espèces d'annuelles de vivaces et d'arbustes dressés, appartenant à la famille des Amaranthacées (Amaranthaceae).
köken: Unclear and disputed. Early attestations First attested (in any language) in Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (c. 982) as بلوج (balūj); note that the non-Arabic letter چ (č) was not properly established in the period. Also found in Shāhnāma (c. 1010), where it is clear that this is /balōč/ and not /*balūč/ given that it rhymes with کوچ (kōč, “wandering tribe”). Further, the word Middle Persian [script needed]…
köken: By surface analysis, a phono-semantic matching of translingual Celosia, borrowed from Epic Greek κήλεος (kḗleos, “burning, blazing”). Seemingly otherwise unrelated to Celosia.
a comb, cockscomb (fleshy crest of a rooster) · short for 鶏冠海苔 (tosaka nori): a species of red algae, Meristotheca papulosa · a kind of wig used in kabuki, with the front hair cut and split apart on the sides; used by onnagata to portray old hags
köken: /tosːaka/ → /tosaka/ Shift from earlier tossaka (see Etymology 2 below). Now the modern spelling. The kanji spelling is from keikan (see Etymology 4 below).