Word Meanings - AREOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AREOLAR
Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue , a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.
AREOLATION
1. Division into areolæ. Dana. 2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.
AREOLATE; AREOLATED
Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.
AREOLA
The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule. (more info) 1. An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels