areola

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
noun small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite

Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.

I found them resembling rather the segment of a sphere, the areola not prominent, and the nipples hemispherical. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

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