corona /kə- or ko-rōˈnə/

1. A crown or crown-like structure
2. The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice crowning the entablature (architecture)
3. The trumpet of a daffodil, etc, composed of ligules of the perianth leaves (botany)
4. A coloured ring round the sun or moon, distinguished from a halo by having a red outerpart
5. One of the sun's envelopes, outside the chromosphere, observable during total eclipse (astronomy)
6. A similar atmospheric envelope of a star (astronomy)
7. The glowing region produced by ionization of the air surrounding a high-voltage conductor (physics)
8. A round pendent chandelier, as hung from the roof of a church (also corona lucis /lūˈsis or looˈkis/)
9. A long cigar with straight sides and a blunt end

coronagraph or coronograph /-ōnˈə-gräf/ noun

A special telescope used to observe prominences and the corona around the edge of the sun

corˈonal /-ə-nl/ noun

A circlet, small crown or garland for the head

1. Relating to a crown, a corona, or to the top of the head
2. Like a crown
3. Cacuminal (phonetics)

coronary adjective see separate entry

corˈonāte or corˈonāted adjective

1. Crowned
2. (of shells) having a row of projections round the apex

coronāˈtion noun

The ceremony of crowning

corōˈnium noun

The name given to a hypothetical element in the solar corona assumed to explain spectral lines now known to be due to iron and nickel atoms that have lost a large number of electrons

coronal suture noun

The serrated line across the skull separating the frontal bone from the parietal bones

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