cornucopia

/ˈkɔrnəˌkoʊpiə/

/kɔnəˈkʌʊpiə/

Other forms: cornucopias

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.

Definitions of cornucopia

1. noun

   a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
   synonyms: horn of plenty

   type of:

   symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization

   something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
2. noun

   the property of being extremely abundant
   synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness

   types:

   overgrowth

   a profusion of growth on or over something else

   greenness, verdancy, verdure

   the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

   wilderness

   a bewildering profusion

   type of:

   abundance, copiousness, teemingness

   the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply