corona
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- noun
- /kəˈroʊnə/
- Specialized
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corona
- The Pope's golden corona is studded with jewels, and it rises like the dome of a gleaming beehive high above his head.
Examples
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Many of the smaller circular features are coronas or impact craters.
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The coronas indicate that very large magma chambers existed at one time in the subsurface.
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There, in the middle of the microscopic field, was the beautiful egg, still surrounded by its corona cells.
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It forms the border of the largest volcanic corona.
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The corona is then observable until the microtubules bind, after which it is less visible.
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This area was termed the "corona" by Jokelainen (1967).
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Soviet researchers have christened these webs and their associated coronas arachnoids.
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Called coronas by geologists, these circles are defined by concentric ridges and moats commonly filled with lava.
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A full-grown chapil palm tree can reach 110 feet tall, its corona of forty-foot fronds stretching skyward above the surrounding canopy.
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In botany, the corona is the part of the flower that often resembles a crown surrounding the reproductive organs.
Compounds
A small group of stars in the northern sky that forms a half circle like a crown
- Specialized
A faint glow around a high-voltage wire when the air becomes charged
How Prominent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Corona comes from the Latin corona, which means 'crown'. It names a crown-like ring or trumpet in a flower or body part, so you can think of it as the little 'crown' that surrounds something.