Coronal

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  • noun. A garland, wreath, or circlet for the head.
  • noun. A coronal consonant.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.
  • adjective. Articulated by raising the blade of the tongue, as (t) in tip and (n) in night.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany, pertaining to a corona in any of the botanical senses of that word.
  • Pertaining to a crown; relating to the crown or to coronation.
  • In anatomy and zoology, pertaining to a corona, in any sense of the word; coronary. Specifically— Pertaining to the corona or top of the head: as, the coronal suture (that is, the frontoparietal suture); coronal feathers of a bird.
  • Corresponding to the coronal suture (that is, transverse and longitudinal) in direction: said of any plane or section of the body extending from one side to the other through or parallel with the long axis: distinguished from sagittal: as, a coronal section of the foot.
  • Of or pertaining to a corona, or halo around one of the heavenly bodies; specifically, pertaining to the corona of the sun.
  • noun. A crown, wreath, or garland.
  • noun. The head of a tilting-lance of iron, furnished with two, three, or four blunt points, which give a good hold on shield or helmet when striking, but do not penetrate.
  • noun. The tilting-lance itself.
  • noun. In anatomy, the coronal or frontoparietal suture. See cut under skull.
  • noun. In biology, a coronal or crowning cell; one of the ectoblasts of a segmented ovum in certain stages of its development.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A crown; wreath; garland.
  • noun. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
  • adjective. a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the fronto-parietal suture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A crown or coronet.
  • noun. A wreath or garland of flowers.
  • noun. a variant of colonel
  • noun. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
  • adjective. relating to a crown
  • adjective. relating to the corona of a star
  • adjective. relating to the corona of a flower
  • adjective. relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue
  • adjective. a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
  • Word Usage
    "The comet was left a bare rock, with its severed tail wrapped around the front of the solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection."
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