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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
areola is a noun meaning "small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing". It carries 2 recorded senses.
small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for areola come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.