My name sounds like a brass horn played in an ear of maize, but I am actually a goat-horn-shaped wicker basket overflowing with autumn gourds and harvest bounty. What am I?
A cornucopia
Wordplay on 'corn' in 'cornucopia' (the horn of plenty), which resembles a musical horn filled with harvest produce.
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