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cornucopia

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

A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

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Ultimately the galaxy, indeed the sum of the universe in its entirety, was mostly nothing; average it all out and it made a pretty good vacuum. But within the foci of matter there were the systems, the stars and planets and habitats-what a cornucopia of life was there! Iain Banks

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. Diane Ackerman

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations. George Will

All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons. Karen Marie Moning

the profusion of detail Source: Internet

the idiomatic richness of English Source: Internet

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