coronals

Noun

coronal (plural coronals)

1. 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 erthe1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book V
2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
   • The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water.1862, Edward McDermott, The Popular Guide to the International Exhibition of 1862, Cambridge University Press, published 2014
3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
   • Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […]1947, Hans Grüneberg, Animal Genetics and Medicine, page 190
4. A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
   • This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation.2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 34

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