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  • Another widely diffused fancy is that of the Aksar28, which in this pastoral land becomes a kind of wood: wonderful tales are told of battered milk-pails which, by means of some peg accidentally cut in the jungle, have been found full of silver, or have acquired the qualities of cornucopiae.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus (P. ostreatus, P. sajorcaju, P. florida, P. cornucopiae, etc.) are called "White-rot" fungi, and they decompose lignin and polysaccharides in wood.

    Chapter 5 1979

  • P. cornucopiae is grown commercially in Japan, but none of the species is grown in western countries.

    Chapter 5 1979

  • She had emptied the cornucopiae of her gifts into their lap!

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Another widely diffused fancy is that of the Aksar [28], which in this pastoral land becomes a kind of wood: wonderful tales are told of battered milk-pails which, by means of some peg accidentally cut in the jungle, have been found full of silver, or have acquired the qualities of cornucopiae.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • [Ornament, head of woman in fancy headdress flanked by two cornucopiae]

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • [Ornament, head of woman in fancy headdress flanked by two cornucopiae] - 26a -

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • HefcuIeB d. clauam, f« cornucopiae* VlAoriam defiiper volitantem fufcipit.

    Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1795

  • Fertuna ft. in/mo duo captiui f. .denre» k i. cum ternone et cornucopiae, ante Con-modi Rubtn.

    Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793

  • Cum neque addantur anni imperii, et tjpi cornucopiae et aquilae certam Aegypti monetam non

    Doctrina numorum veterum 1792

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