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a tiny architect that turns chaos into something you'd swear was on purpose
means a toothed tool you drag through hair (or fur, fibers, or anything tangled) to straighten, smooth, and arrange it.
from From Old English 'camb,' the same word that gave us the comb of a rooster and the honeycomb — all things ridged with rows of little teeth. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root 'kambaz,' a cousin of forms across the old Germanic tongues, and ultimately possibly to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'tooth' or 'to bite' — fitting, since a comb is essentially a row of gentle bites laid in a line.
- ancient tech
- Carved combs predate the wheel by millennia
- bee borrow
- Honeycomb steals the same name for its order
- static engine
- Plastic teeth literally generate electric charge
- rooster crown
- A rooster's red crest is also called a comb
- missing tooth
- Every old comb loses one, always the same way
comb of honeybee — hexagonal wax structure built by honeybees to store honey and raise larvae
comb jellies — bioluminescent marine animals with eight rows of cilia that refract light like combs
cock's comb — red fleshy crest on rooster's head, also a flowering plant (celosia cristata)