areolet
English edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Latin areola. See -et, -let.
Noun edit
areolet (plural areolets)
- (zoology) A small enclosed area, especially one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “areolet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)