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

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

Dealbreaker

Biareolate: with two cells or areoles: see bilocular.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

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

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

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

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.