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Synonyms for areola

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

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

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germinating radicle (8-12 months later), it is in this areole that the
Micropropagation of Cereus peruvianus Mill (Cactaceae) by areole activation.
Anterior and anterolateral tubercles do not have an areole as distinctly enlarged as those associated with plastron spines (Figures 4(c) and 4(d)).
Thallus thin, yellow, lobulate or of small cracked areoles, or not evident; spores 14 x 7 [micro]m, isthmus 2.8-4.2 [micro]m Caloplaca species #1 2 Thallus a thin black or yellow crust, or not evident 3.
Cactus branches bear many areoles (spine-bearing pads) that can produce one or more flowers per night.
Areoles are imperfect and irregular in shape, but usually
aphyllus are pseudoberries containing a single seed, and are presented on reddish branches protruding from the spine areoles of parasitized cacti.
They had radially elongated, irregular, shared areoles lacking freely ending veinlets.
These specialized types include modifications of the whole shoot apex, cephalium, or merely of the flower-bearing areoles (Mauseth & Kiesling, 1997).
All cacti are succulents, yet are defined by the presence of areoles (specialised sites where spines form) where succulents have none.
These species all share, besides the laminar division, open primary areoles, with noncostal areoles including two or more excurrent veinlets, and sori in a terminal position on the veinlets.
As for that desert within a desert when the valley cactus raises her dry arms, at the axils where areoles protrude their wooly chins, their bristled spines, I give you succulent magenta from the floral tube.
Color (in ethanol): Dorsal scutum and legs I-III (except Tr) background Grayish Olive (110), with grooves, areoles and reticulation Grayish Yellow (90).
Pebbled pixie-cup (Cladonia pyxidata) has cups with noticeable saucer or pebble-shaped areoles (segments) in the cup and often up the stalk.