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coronal | megan |

As a noun coronal

is a crown or coronet.

As an adjective coronal

is relating to a crown or coronation.

coronal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall , / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!
  • A wreath or garland of flowers.
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  • (obsolete) A variant of colonel.
  • The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
  • :(Hooper)
  • (label) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • relating to a crown or coronation
  • * Milton
    • The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
  • (astronomy) relating to the corona of a star
  • * Abney
    • The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-07-28 , author = Megan Gannon , title = Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun , site = news.yahoo.com , url = http://news.yahoo.com/spacecraft-sees-giant-hole-sun-video-153040642.html , accessdate = 2013-07-29 }}
    Coronal' holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. ' Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.
  • (botany) relating to the corona of a flower
  • (phonetics) relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue
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  • (anatomy) a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front)
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    • Coordinate terms

    * * (phonetics) labial, dorsal, radical, laryngeal

    Hyponyms

    * (phonetics) interdental, dental, alveolar, postalveolar, retroflex, palatoalveolar, alveopalatal, palatal

    See also

    * (wikipedia "coronal")

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    megan

    English

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun).
  • borrowed from (etyl).
  • * 1916 John Galsworthy: The Apple Tree : Chapter VIII:
    • Was it true that twenty-six years had passed, or had he dreamed and awakened to find Megan waiting for him by the big apple tree?

    Related terms

    * (modern nonstandard spellings) Meaghan, Meghan, Meagan

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