cornucopia

noun
/ˌkɔː.njəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/UK/ˌkɔɹ.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia.

  1. borrowed from cornūcōpia

Definitions

  1. A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain

    A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

    • Device, an anchor held by a hand from the clouds: behind the anchor are a kind of brackets, in the form of cornucopiæ, croſſed; […]
  2. A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.

  3. An abundance or plentiful supply.

    • The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.
    • These days, thanks to the cornucopia of online dance classes and tutorials, you can almost imagine yourself to be a dancer.
    • The bulk of the benefits were flowing to China, which became the low-cost producer for the developed world, and to consumers in advanced economies whose shops offered a cornucopia of cheaper goods.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cornucopia. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cornucopia. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cornucopia

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA