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corona
corona is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses
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- 1noun
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- 2noun
The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.
- 3noun
The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
- 4noun
The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
- 5noun
A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
- 6noun
An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
- 7noun
Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
- 8noun
A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
- 9noun
A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
- 10noun
A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
- 11noun
A character [/] called the pause or hold.
- 12noun
a long cigar with blunt ends
- 13noun
(anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
- 14noun
the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
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- 15noun
one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
- 16noun
an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
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- 17noun
(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
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