What's the difference between cornucopia and flower?

Cornucopia


Definition:

  • (n.) The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.
  • (n.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I experience a strange sensation: I’m in cornucopia-denial.
  • (2) Rupert Murdoch's celebration of the multi-channel cornucopia certainly was, at a time when it was unclear if non-terrestrial TV would ever take off in the UK, and Greg Dyke's MacTaggart in 2000 outlined the shape of the BBC as it is now.
  • (3) The human genome mapping initiative will undoubtedly produce a cornucopia of such genes.
  • (4) The cornucopia of brilliance on stage in London and around British cities is too plentiful to list.
  • (5) We report the case of a young man who developed severe asthma a few months after starting work in a factory producing a single type of mushroom: Pleurotus cornucopiae (a basidiomycete).
  • (6) Recent studies of the corn smut fungus life cycle and its regulation by two mating type loci and other genes provide a cornucopia of challenges in cell biology, genetics and protein structure.
  • (7) In its investigation into the hacking of the royal princes' phones, the Met garnered from the disgraced private investigator Mulcaire a cornucopia of information, including a large number of pin numbers, notebooks with details of celebrities' and politicians' private addresses, phone numbers and connections.
  • (8) His debut film Thumbsucker was a little-seen critically acclaimed tale of a young appendage-obsessed man, complete with a cornucopia of odd characters (including Keanu Reeves as a creepy, philosophical dentist).
  • (9) But the NSSF has decided to go ahead with its annual gun cornucopia, with no apparent changes to its exhibitor list or to the range of firearms on display.
  • (10) The latter, a cornucopia of theories about the movie, should enrich any and every subsequent viewing of The Shining.
  • (11) This cornucopia of cultures ultimately defined the Filipino identity.
  • (12) At the same time, it is essential to inform and engage all the less privileged strata of North Korean society in a cornucopia of different ways.
  • (13) His studio in Chiswick is an ordered cornucopia of toys, models, Victoriania, pop memorabilia and items picked up in junk shops.
  • (14) And David Cameron, who must have heard all this stuff often, sitting next to Osborne, managed to look impressed, as if he could not quite believe this cornucopia of good news.
  • (15) Soon my vegetable garden will be a veritable cornucopia and with fire season in full swing I’ll transfer my cooking into the kitchen, but for now, on these cool evenings, I'll continue to make the most of this seasonal shift.
  • (16) Albini has a knack for colourful imagery, such as this description of how the internet has provided music lovers instant access to a cornucopia from around the world: “Imagine a great hall of fetishes where whatever you felt like fucking or being fucked by, however often your tastes might change, no matter what hardware or harnesses were required, you could open the gates and have at it on a comfy mattress at any time of day.
  • (17) Our pharmaceutical industries produce a cornucopia of prescription drugs – eye-opening, stupefying, mood-swinging, game-changing, anxiety-alleviating, performance-enhancing – currently at a global market-value of more than $300bn.
  • (18) A nd so, in the week that our overlord, David Cameron, sat on a golden throne in white tie and preached austerity, surrounded by a cornucopia of similarly gold and shiny objects, it becomes apparent that Britain has a social mobility problem .
  • (19) The world's greatest ecosystem is home to a cornucopia of ingredients (and many species of plant still undiscovered), and this is where he stocks his pantry.
  • (20) Muzaffargarh in southern Punjab is Pakistan's farming heartland, a fertile belt along the river Indus that produces a cornucopia of crops – wheat, rice and cotton, Pakistan's main cash export.

Flower


Definition:

  • (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
  • (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
  • (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
  • (n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
  • (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
  • (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
  • (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
  • (n.) Menstrual discharges.
  • (v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
  • (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.
  • (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
  • (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
  • (v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (2) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
  • (3) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (4) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
  • (5) I believe Flower when he promises he would not repeat his mistake.
  • (6) In these tissues, the viral DNA replicated at the site of inoculation and was transported first to the roots, then to the shoot apex and to the neighboring leaves and the flowers.
  • (7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (8) "They were the real flowers in the show - boys who I picked up in the park because they looked right."
  • (9) Parietaria judaica (Pellitory-of-the-Wall) is native to the U.K., flowering from June to September, but is not usually considered to be of any clinical importance by U.K. allergists.
  • (10) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
  • (11) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
  • (12) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
  • (13) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
  • (14) It is that rare flower, a positive environmental story.
  • (15) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (16) This study documents a previously unrecognized potential source of occupational pesticide exposure and suggests that safety standards should be set for residue levels on cut flowers.
  • (17) We suggest that both vertical transmission of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons within plant lineages and horizontal transmission between different species have played roles in the evolution of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in flowering plants.
  • (18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
  • (19) The carcinogenic activity of petasitenine, a new pyrrolizidine alkaloid isolated from young flower stalk of Petasites japonicus, was studied in ACI rats.
  • (20) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).