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coronal n [ˈkɒrənəl] 1. Poetic a circlet for the head; crown 2. a wreath or garland 3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy short for coronal suture adj [kəˈrəʊnəl]
1. of or relating to a corona or coronal 2. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics a less common word for retroflex [from Late Latin corōnālis belonging to a crown] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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He has thrown off his paper cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like Adam's, but thin and wavy, allowing you to discern the exact contour of a coronal arch that predominates very decidedly over the brow. Chaplets too, resembling in their arrangement the strawberry coronal worn by an English peeress, and composed of intertwined leaves and blossoms, often crowned their temples; and bracelets and anklets of the same tasteful pattern were frequently to be seen. Rappit, the hair-dresser, with his well-anointed coronal locks tending wavily upward, like the simulated pyramid of flame on a monumental urn, seemed to her at that moment the most formidable of her contemporaries, into whose street at St. |
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