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noun

Cornucopia n. (pl. cornucopias)

The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

pl. (Bot.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form. Note: Some writers maintain that this word should be written, in the singular, cornu copiae, and in the plural, cornua copiae.

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Etymology of 'Cornucopia'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cornucopia" Quotes from Famous Books

... And yet, so it seems to me, there is in the agglomerations of scenes and impressions, as they followed each other in my experience, something of the quality of a great symphony; and I consider this quality as a free and undeserved present which Chance or Nature shook out of her cornucopia so it happened to fall at my feet. I am trying to render ...

— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove

... gold of Ophir, the pomps of Palmyra, and the shining glories of Zion. He longed to "crown her with rose-buds, to fill her with costly wine and ointments,"—to pour over her the measureless bounty of his love, from the cornucopia ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various

... by the same success—the bouquet of flowers, produced instantaneously from a hat; the CORNUCOPIA, supplying a multitude of objects which I distributed, though unable to satisfy the repeated demands made on all sides, and still more by those who had their hands full already; the FIVE-FRANC PIECES, sent across the theater with a crystal box ...

— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne

... This Cornucopia of the South is not sleeping, however; she is on her feet and bestirring herself and aware of her almost ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... Calliopsis elegans picta. Cardiospermum Halicacabum. Carduus benedictus. Centaurea Cyanus minor Emperor William. Cheiranthus Cheiri. Chrysanthemum tricolor, t. hybridum and coronarium sulphureum fl. pl. Clarkia elegans rosea. Datura cornucopia. Erysimum Arkansanum and Perofskianum. Eutoca viscida. Gilia capitata alba. Helichrysum bracteatum and macranthum. Hibiscus Africanus. Impatiens, all varieties. Lupinus hirsutus pilosus. Matthiola Blood-red Ten Weeks, Cut and Come Again, grandiflora, annuus, and ...

— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

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