crown-like

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crown-like

  1. Alternative spelling of crownlike.
    • 2020 March 9, Katy Steinmetz, “Coronavirus: A Glossary of Terms to Help You Understand the Unfolding Crisis”, in time.com[1]:
      The scientists who in 1968 came up with the term coronavirus thought that, under a microscope, the virus they were looking at resembled a solar corona: the bright crown-like ring of gasses surrounding the sun that is visible during a solar eclipse.