cornucopia

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

horn of plenty richness profusion profuseness mass horn mountain host store load excess masses mine stack amplitude
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Antonyms

few lack bit absence debt poverty
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Hypernyms

abundance symbolization symbol copiousness symbolisation teemingness

Hyponyms

overgrowth wilderness greenness verdure verdancy

Related terms

copious

Derivatives

cornucopias

Examples

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

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the idiomatic richness of English Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Cornubian cornubianite cornubite cornucopia machine cornucopia sofa cornucopian