areoles

+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

The spines grow in clusters, known as "areoles," and their function is to prevent the cactus from being eaten by animals.

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Biareolate: with two cells or areoles: see bilocular.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

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.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

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

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

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