Coromandel Wood
the wood of diospyros hirsuta, a tree found in Ceylon. Its ground color is chocolate brown, CORONER with black stripes and marks; it is hard, turns well, and makes very handsome furniture.
CORONA (a crown), in astronomy, a halo or luminous circle round one of the heavenly bodies; specifically the portion of the aureola observed during total eclipses of the sun, which lies outside the chromosphere or region of colored prominences. In botany, the corona is an appendage of the corolla in some flowers, coming as it were between the corolla and the stamens, well seen in the cup lower member of the projecting part of of the daffodil. In architecture, it is the a cornice. See HALO.
CORONA AUSTRALIS (the southern crown), one of Ptolemy's southern constellations, containing 12 stars. CORONA BOREALIS (the northern crown), one of Ptolemy's northern constellations, containing 21 stars.