Areola

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

II. Areola ·noun 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 that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Related Words

areola
ārĕŏla (āri-), ae, f. dim. [area]. I (After area, I.) A small , open place : quae cenatio areol...

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