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coronal

adj
/ˈkɒɹənəl/UK/ˈkɔɹənəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“a crown”).

  1. derived from corōnālis
  2. derived from coronal
  3. inherited from coronal

Definitions

  1. Relating to a crown or coronation.

    • The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.

  2. Relating to the corona of a star.

    • The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.

  3. Relating to the corona of a flower.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.

    2. Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).

    3. Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.

    4. Relating to the corona glandis.

    5. Relating to a coroner's findings.

    6. A crown or coronet.

      • Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe
      • That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!

    7. A wreath or garland of flowers.

      • The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water.
      • Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam

    8. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.

      • Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […]

    9. A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.

      • This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation.

    10. Alternative form of cronel (“lance-part”).

      • By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance.
      • […] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance.
      • The tilting lance differed from a war lance in that it possessed a coronal instead of a point. The coronal consisted of[…]

    11. Obsolete form of colonel.

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Derived

apicocoronal, bicoronal, coronal hole, coronally, coronal mass ejection, coronal plane, coronal rain, coronal suture, distocoronal, extracoronal, geocoronal, hemicoronal, infracoronal, intercoronal, intracoronal, midcoronal, pearly coronal papules, pericoronal, precoronal, unicoronal

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coronal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA