Usually means: Pigmented skin around the nipples.
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  1. areolae: Merriam-Webster
  2. areolae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. areolae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. areolae: Vocabulary.com
  5. areolae: Wiktionary
  6. Areolae, areolae: Dictionary.com
  7. Areolae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Areolae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Areolae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. areolae: FreeDictionary.org
  11. areolae: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. areolae: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. areolae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. areolae: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Areolae: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (areola)

noun:  (anatomy) The circular, darkly pigmented area surrounding a nipple; the areola mammae.
noun:  (by extension, anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.
noun:  (botany) Any of the small spaces between fibres of the tissues of certain lichens.
noun:  (botany) Small patches, bearing the spines and glochids characteristic of the stems of cacti.
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