| 单词 | cornucopia |
| 释义 | cornucopia (once / 12455 pages) n A grocery store with a large selection of fruits and vegetables could be said to have a cornucopia of produce. A cornucopia is a lot of good stuff. Around Thanksgiving in the United States, you'll often see cornucopias or horn-shaped baskets filled with fruit and other goodies as centerpieces. Originally, a cornucopia was a goat's horn filled with corn and fruit to symbolize plenty. Nowadays, a cornucopia is probably made of some kind of plaster or wicker, but it still symbolizes the same thing — a good harvest season. WORD FAMILYcornucopia: cornucopias USAGE EXAMPLESWhy in the world would a person who lived in the thick of the Parisian cinematic cornucopia need to own a VCR and rent videotapes? The New Yorker(Dec 06, 2016) A third option is developing farther down the road in Abu Dhabi, where a cornucopia of long-delayed museum projects is finally coming to fruition. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) But Myanmar remains a cornucopia of natural resources, and it is welcoming foreign investment as one of Asia’s last economic frontiers. Seattle Times(Nov 14, 2016) 1n a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity Syn|Hyper horn of plenty symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible 2n the property of being extremely abundant Syn|Hypo|Hyper profuseness, profusion, richness overgrowth a profusion of growth on or over something else greenness, verdancy, verdurethe lush appearance of flourishing vegetation wildernessa bewildering profusion abundance, copiousness, teemingness the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply |
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