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Literature | Horn of Plenty [Cornu-copia ]. Emblem of plenty. Ceres is drawn with a ram's horn in her left arm, filled with fruits and flowers. Sometimes they are being poured on the earth from "the full horn," and sometimes they are held in it as in a basket. Diodorus (iii. 68) says the horn is one from the head of the goat by which Jupiter was suckled. He explains the fable thus: "In Libya," he says, "there is a strip of land shaped like a horn, bestowed by King Ammon on his bride Amalthæa, who nursed Jupiter with goat's milk. "When Amalthe'a's horn O'er hill and dale the rose-crowned Flora pours. And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers." Camocns: Lusiad, book ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Horn of Plenty is also a common name for the edible mushroom Craterella cornucopioides; also known as the Black Chanterelle. It gets its name from its shape resembling the classical cornucopia. The mushroom is dark coloured, almost black and looks rather unattractive, but reportedly has a very good flavour.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sufficiency | Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HORN OF PLENTY |
| Specialty definitions using "HORN OF PLENTY": Amalthea's Horn ♦ PERICLES. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HORN OF PLENTY": Cornucopia. (references) |
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Clever | The horn of plenty is usually the one behind you in traffic! (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Language | Translations for "HORN OF PLENTY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرن الخصب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | horn af overflod, doedtropet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoorn van overvloed, hoorn des overvloeds (cornucopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mustatorvisieni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corne d'abondance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Totentrompete. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κέρασ τησ αμάλθειασ (cornucopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bőségszaru (cornucopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trombetta dei morti, trombetta da morto (black chanterelle), corno dell'abbondanza (cornucopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornhay ofay entyplay cornucpia. (various references) corn al abundenţei. (various references) рог изобилия (cornucopia). (various references) trompeta de la muerte (black chanterelle), cuerno de la abundancia (cornucopia). (various references) svart trumpetsvamp. (various references) bolluk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, bonanza, copiousness, cornucopia, effusion, effusiveness, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fleshpots, flood, fullness, fulness, glut, handsomeness, lashings, looseness, luxuriance, luxuriancy, opulence, overflowing, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificness, prosperity, rankness, richness, store, stores, superfluity, wealth, wideness, width). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Craterellus cornucopioides. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-4 letters: holotype, orthoepy, porthole. | |
-5 letters: elytron, entropy, felonry, foolery, footler, foretop, fronton, helotry, hyperon, nephron, nonhero, oophyte, poofter, pothole, prenoon, pronely, protyle, typhoon. | |
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