AREOLA (areolae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: areolae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does areola mean? 

• AREOLA (noun)
  The noun AREOLA has 2 senses:

1. small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing

2. small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite

  Familiarity information: AREOLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AREOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("areola" is a kind of...):

interstice (a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

areola; ring of color

Hypernyms ("areola" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Holonyms ("areola" is a part of...):

boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)

Derivation:

areolar (relating to or like or divided into areolae)

 Context examples 

Surrounding the areola.

(Periareolar, NCI Thesaurus)