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coronal
[ noun kawr-uh-nl, kor-; adjective kuh-rohn-l, kawr-uh-nl, kor- ]
noun
- a crown; coronet.
- a garland.
adjective
- of or relating to a coronal.
- Anatomy.
- of or relating to a corona.
- (of a plane along the long axis of the body) lying in the direction of the coronal suture.
- Phonetics. (of a speech sound) articulated with the tip of the tongue, especially in a retroflex position.
- Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised; dental, alveolar, or palato-alveolar.
- of or relating to the tip of the tongue.
coronal
adjective
- of or relating to a corona or coronal
- phonetics a less common word for retroflex
Other Words From
- coro·naled especially British, coro·nalled adjective
- co·ronal·ly adverb
- nonco·ronal adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of coronal1
Example Sentences
From certain viewing angles, what had been wrinkles now instead looked like coronal loops.
Some coronal loops might be an illusion created by “wrinkles” of greater density in a curtain of plasma dubbed the coronal veil, researchers propose March 2 in Astrophysical Journal.
On Friday, the sun’s surface erupted with outbursts of charged particles called “coronal mass ejections.”
Observations from the Parker Solar Probe hint that this flow comes from small coronal holes near the sun’s equator.
That material spews out of funnel-shaped openings in the sun’s magnetic field, called coronal holes, near the sun’s poles.
The birches and aspens are turned to trees of gold, and only the great oak keeps his coronal of green.
Haply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding billy-cock.
No coronal effect was noted, though a pulsating nebulous area appeared in front of the moon just before contact.
They placed a coronal of blooming orange flowers upon her faultless head.
To prevent this shave off the hair from the coronal commissures, and apply the following plaster to the place.
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