Cornucopia: Definition and part of speech

Cornucopia

  1. n. A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
  2. n. The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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