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nounsmall circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite
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nounsmall space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wingtype of:
Definition that contains areola
- boletellus russellii a fungus with a long coarsely shaggy reticulate stalk and a rimose areolate cap surface
- montgomery's tubercle one of the sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate the breast during breast-feeding
- areolar relating to or like or divided into areolae
- areolate relating to or like or divided into areolae