AREOLATE

In Entomology, divided into small spaces, or areolations. Areolate. In Botany, in composite plants, when the florets are placed so completely upon the surface of the receptacle, that many a pentagonal area, or space, is left when the ovaries drop off AREOLATION (Lat. area) means any small space, distinctly bounded by something different in colour, texture, . The spaces of parenchyma, which in leaves are bounded by veins, are areolations. [s. 98]