Words Like AREOLA

We have put together a list of words that are similar to AREOLA.

3 Alternative Words Similar to areola

1 Area Noun      Synonym Words Like Area
2 Interstice Noun      Synonym Words Like Interstice
3 Region Noun      Synonym Words Like Region

10 definitions of areola

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 that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.
2 The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.
3 small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite
4 small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
5 Biology A small space or interstice in a tissue or part, such as the area bounded by small veins in a leaf or the wing of an insect.
6 A small, specialized, cushionlike area on a cactus from which hairs, glochids, spines, branches, or flowers may arise.
7 Anatomy A small ring of color around a center portion, as about the nipple of the breast or the part of the iris surrounding the pupil of the eye.
8 In entomology, a small, generally angular, inclosed space on a surface, as the spaces between the veinlets in the wing of a dragon-fly, or pale spaces between dark lines which form a network. Also areolet.
9 In botany, a term sometimes used to designate the meshes of cellular tissue or little distinct angular spaces on a surface.
10 In anatomy: Any little cell, area, or space; especially, one of the small interstices in the meshes of areolar tissue and the like, or among minute interlacing vessels, as capillaries. The colored circle or halo about the nipple of the human mammary gland, pink in virgins, and brown of various shades in women who have borne children. The red ring of inflamed tissue surrounding a pustule. Hence, figuratively
We get our data from many different dictionaries across the web:
Wordnik, Wiktionary, Century, American Heritage, Gcide