Cornucopia
The horn-shaped basket overflowing with fruit and grain, a symbol of harvest.
Also: horn of plenty
The cornucopia, from the Latin for horn of plenty, is a curved basket or horn overflowing with fruit, vegetables, flowers and grain. It comes from Greek myth, in which a goat's horn gave endless food to the infant Zeus, and became the emblem of abundance. In the United States it is used as a centrepiece at Thanksgiving, in Europe it appears on harvest festival displays, and in art it stands beside the goddess of plenty. Bakers weave bread cornucopias, and schoolchildren cut paper ones. It carries the plain message of the harvest, that the land has given enough and there is something to share.
Region: North America