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areolar

UK /əˈɹiːə.lə(ɹ)/adjective

areolar is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to areolae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-E-O-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does areolar mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to areolae.

  2. 2

    Characterised by areolae (intercellular spaces).

    areolar tissue

  3. 3

    Of or relating to areoles.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce areolar?

  • UK /əˈɹiːə.lə(ɹ)/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of areolar

  • more areolar comparative
  • most areolar superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is areolar?

Areolar appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Areolar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense relating to areolae:

LanguageWords
Frencharéolaire
Portugueseareolar
Spanishareolar

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.