Crossword clues for areole
areole
- Cavity in a cactus
- Tiny space
- Little pit
- Cactus opening
- Tiny open space
- Colored ring, in botany
- Small space
- Cactus bump
- Specialized cactus branch
- Ring around the pupil
- Nipple ring (Var.)
- Cactus spine source
- Cactus feature
- Part of the iris surrounding the pupil (Var.)
- Part of the iris surrounding the pupil
- Cactus part that bears spines
- Cactus bud
- Bump on a cactus
- Bump from which cactus spines grow
- Botanical ring of color
- Botanical ring
- Tissue gap
- Interstice in a leaf
- Small pit
- Anatomical ring
- Botanical interstice
- Small interstice
- Ring of color (Var.)
- Iris ring
- Anatomical interstice
- Iris part
- Cactus ring
- Space on a butterfly's wing
- Small cavity, as around a cactus spine
- Prickly area of a prickly pear
- Ring of anatomy
- Biological ring of color (Var.)
- Round bump on a cactus
- Leaf interstice
- Botanical space
- Small opening, as on a cactus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Areole \A"re*ole\, n. Same as Areola.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) The smallest enclosures created by the veins of a leaf.
Wikipedia
In botany, areoles are small light- to dark-colored bumps on cacti out of which grow clusters of spines. Areoles are important diagnostic features of cacti, and identify them as a family distinct from other succulent plants. The spines are not easily detachable, but on certain cacti, members of the subfamily Opuntioideae, smaller, detachable bristles, glochids, also grow out of the areoles and afford additional protection.
Areoles represent highly specialized branches on cacti. Apparently, they evolved as abortive branch buds while their spines evolved as vestigial leaves. In branched cacti, such as Opuntioidiae and the saguaro, new branches grow from areoles, because that is where the buds are. The development of the areole seems to have been an important element in the adaptation of cacti to niches in desert ecology.
Some of the Opuntioideae have spines, as well as glochids, on their areoles; some have only glochids. Structurally, the glochids seem to be bristles rather than evolved leaves. They are detachable and resemble small, sharp splinters. Unlike the spines, glochids generally are barbed and are very difficult to remove from the skin.
Usage examples of "areole".
I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.
High, full and firm, her nipples and areoles were clearly visible under the fine white fabric.
Only her nipples and areoles were pink, topping the rise of her breasts like the last rays of sunset hitting the tips of twin mountains.
The brown nipples, surrounded by warm tan areoles, were pebbled to hard nubs -- the kind a man would nuzzle and suck into his mouth.
It covered her nipples, but just barely, leaving the tops of the areoles visible.
They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.
Certainly less erotic, the girl nevertheless presented truly prodigious udders with swollen teats that seemed to have become rigid in permanent erection upon the perfectly smooth areoles.
The strangled protuberances, still blazing from what Anthea had inflicted and now pulsing with blue veins, bulged from the tight hemp, the areoles and teats turning into dark magenta lumps.
I like the whorl of your navel and those areoles without even a single pimple on them.
Twenty strokes and countless howls later, the globes hung furrowed and bloated, the petal-smooth areoles ablaze, the teats swollen like purple grapes at harvest, jerking with the throb of the slavegirl's heart.
Evelyn sent the bulges bouncing, now up to the slave number, the black VII, on the chest, now across to the sweating armpits, and then flattening them, driving the teats, areoles and rings into the blue-veined flesh.
Marietta's pallor drove guests to beat her breasts horrendously, desecrating her without pity, even using the cane on her areoles before leaving her to smoulder.
Like the well-groomed Marie-Félice but more striking, the vixen was booted, gloved and harnessed over the thorax, the areoles sheathed with the usual barbed cones.
Baring his teeth, the saintly soul struck directly across the areoles.
As the areoles and ringed teats bulged, the veins pulsated like trapped worms.