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- noun Plural form of
areola .
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Examples
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+Cap+ yellow or olive brown, 3 inches broad, plane, dry, marked with areoles, that is, the surface is broken up into little areas or patches.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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The spines grow in clusters, known as "areoles," and their function is to prevent the cactus from being eaten by animals.
Dealbreaker 2009
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Biareolate: with two cells or areoles: see bilocular.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The areoles or tufts on the tops of the mammae are large, and the spines are about seven in number, ½ in. long, and of a tawny-yellow colour.
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Veins areolate; fertile fronds taller, twelve to twenty inches high with narrowly linear divisions, the areoles and fruit-dots in a single row each side of the secondary midrib, the latter sunk in the tissues.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Veins forming narrow rows of net-like spaces (areoles) beneath the fruit-dots, thence free to the margin.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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The = pileus = is convex, the very thin margin somewhat incurved, disk expanded, uneven, near the center cracked into numerous small viscid brownish areoles; pileus flesh color, flesh same color except toward the gills.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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