cornucopia Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
    horn of plenty.
  2. noun the property of being extremely abundant
    profusion; profuseness; richness.
    • the profusion of detail
    • the idiomatic richness of English

WordNet

Cor`nu*co"pi*a noun
Etymology
L. cornu copiae horn of plenty. See Horn, and Copious.
Wordforms
plural Cornucopias
Definitions
  1. The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.
  2. pl. (Bot.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form. ✍ Some writers maintain that this word should be written, in the singular, cornu copiæ, and in the plural, cornua copiæ.

Webster 1913