Thanksgiving words

Thanksgiving words

You will learn the following words and the meaning.

Wheat

a cereal plant that is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc

Acorn

noun: acorn; plural noun: acorns

the fruit of the oak tree, a smooth oval nut in a rough cup-shaped base.

Mayflower

the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620

Pilgrims

a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

Scarecrow

an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing.

Harvest

the process or period of gathering in crops.

Cornucopia

curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance