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\"\"<\/a>A cornucopia is literally a horn of plenty deriving as it does from the Latin cornu, meaning horn, and copia, meaning abundance or a copious amount. Overflowing with fruits and vegetables, the cornucopia is still a common sight at Thanksgiving, although the original goat’s horn, a symbol of the nanny-goat that nursed the god Zeus when he was an infant, is now usually replaced by a horn made of straw. The corn of cornucopia is in no way related to the grain corn, but it is related to the corn in unicorn (a one-horned beast), to the corn in Capricorn (the horned goat of astrology), to the corn caused by too-tight shoes (a hornlike protuberance), to the corn in corner (an angle sticking out like a horn), to the corn in cornet (a pastry shaped like a horn), and to the corn in Cornish pastry (Cornish comes from the English county called Cornwall, and Cornwall evolved from Corn-Welsh, so-called because the county sticks out into the sea like a horn).<\/p>\n

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A conical-shaped delicacy made of layers of flaky pastry dough, enveloping a delectable filling of either whipped cream or custard. This delectable treat is commonly known as the horn-of-plenty, owing to its resemblance to the abundant and overflowing cornucopia, a symbol of abundance and nourishment.<\/p>\n

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A cornucopia is literally a horn of plenty deriving as it does from the Latin cornu, meaning horn, and copia, meaning abundance or a copious amount. Overflowing with fruits and vegetables, the cornucopia is still a common sight at Thanksgiving, although the original goat’s horn, a symbol of the nanny-goat that nursed the god Zeus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c"],"yoast_head":"\nCornucopia - Definition of Cornucopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A cornucopia is literally a horn of plenty deriving as it does from the Latin cornu, meaning horn, and copia, meaning abundance or a copious amount. 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