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coronated, ppl. a.|ˈkɒrəneɪtɪd|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
†1. Of flowers: Arranged in a whorl: cf. corone.
1676Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. App. (1682) 175 Sometimes, they [Flowers] are placed round about the Branch, that is, Coronated, as in Pulegium.
2. Bot. and Zool. Furnished with a corona, or something resembling a crown; spec. in Conchol. applied to spiral shells which have their whorls surmounted by a row of spines or tubercles.
1698J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 320 A small Coronated Fruit. 1703G. J. Camel ibid. XXIII. 1427 A small dry berry coronated somewhat like a clove. 1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 113 Shell ventricose, coronated. Ibid. 145 Whirls angular or coronated.
†3. = coroneted. Obs.
1767Babler II. 110 All the insolence of coronated pride.
4. Made crown-like. (nonce-use.)
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 143 He was..a true ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν, and the ragged edges of his old hat seemed to become coronated as I looked at him. |