(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.
Plethora
Definition:
(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) By univariate analysis, each echocardiographic sign was associated with both cardiac tamponade and the combined end point (p less than or equal to 0.01 for comparisons with size and right-sided chamber collapse; p less than or equal to 0.07 for comparisons with IVC plethora).
(2) Brown will argue that the digital revolution will be especially vital in job centres, schools, hospital records and ensuring that, when people move home, they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(3) Histopathological rearrangement in the small intestine wall is demonstrated as edema of the mucous membrane, as plethora of the vessels, as lymphoid infiltration and as changes of the villi forms.
(4) The work analyzes macroscopical (weight, volume, specific gravity) and microscopical (qualitative -- plethora, content of lipids, foci of cytolysis, mosaity etc.
(5) Peptic ulcer is a common and chronic problem with a plethora of drug treatments available that accelerate healing in the short term.
(6) The widespread usage of ventriculoperitoneal shunts has been followed by a plethora of complications.
(7) Childs also oversaw the launch of a plethora of new BBC Worldwide channels in 2006, such as BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge, which are now available on several continents, including Asia, Europe and South America.
(8) Vascular changes were expressed as congestive plethora, perivascular edema and microfocal hemorrhages.
(9) There is a plethora of receptions at conference and Corbyn is expected to drop in on most of them.
(10) Despite the plethora of models and strategies for addressing issues that surround the chronically mentally ill, there remains a paucity of literature that addresses the specific implications of deinstitutionalization on racial minorities.
(11) "The plethora of indigenous highly pathogenic and virulent agents naturally occurring in India and the large Indian industrial base – combined with weak controls – also make India as much a source of bioterrorism material as a target," diplomats warned.
(12) The plethora of beta blockers that subsequently became available for study led to considerable improvement in both the design and implementation of large clinical trials.
(13) In the control, after ischemia (without radiation) in 45 days venous plethora of the vessels in the intermuscular plexus of the intestinal wall is kept.
(14) More recently, physiological findings have directed investigation toward a plethora of humoral substances and their possible role in disturbances of the secretory processes in CF.
(15) Despite the plethora of information provided by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that allows differentiation of some substances that are indistinguishable at computed tomography (CT), there are diagnostic problems.
(16) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(17) I would suggest that we must be innovative in dealing with the plethora of health legislation.
(18) Brown argued that the digital revolution will be especially vital in jobcentres, schools, hospital records and to ensure that when people move home they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) Obama will unveil a plethora of new legislative proposals, together with 19 executive actions that he can introduce without congressional approval, at a White House event on Wednesday morning.