CORONAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronal mean? 

• CORONAL (noun)
  The noun CORONAL has 1 sense:

1. flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

  Familiarity information: CORONAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chaplet; coronal; garland; lei; wreath

Hypernyms ("coronal" is a kind of...):

floral arrangement; flower arrangement (a decorative arrangement of flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coronal"):

crown (a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory)

bay wreath; laurel; laurel wreath ((antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory)

 Context examples 

In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

(Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets, NASA)

Coronal images of the maxillary and mandibular teeth are recorded.

(Bitewing Radiograph, NCI Thesaurus)

Presentation of image views other than the standard coronal, sagittal and transaxial views.

(Image Reorientation, NCI Thesaurus)

They use hand-drawn maps labeled with various solar features — including active regions, filaments and coronal hole boundaries.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail.

(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)

Solar activity refers to emissions from the Sun, including solar flares and eruptions of material called coronal mass ejections.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

These events, called coronal mass ejections, generate shock, or pressure, waves.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

Solar storms often include an eruption on the sun called a coronal mass ejection, or CME.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Alterations in the gene resulting in defects cause, achondroplasia, crouzon syndrome, thanatophoric dysplasia, coronal synostosis, hypochondroplasia, bladder and cervix cancers.

(FGFR3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

FGFR3 defects cause achondroplasia, crouzon syndrome, thanatophoric dysplasia, coronal synostosis, hypochondroplasia, bladder and cervix cancers.

(Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3, NCI Thesaurus)