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What is an areole?

What is an areole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) The smallest enclosures created by the veins of a leaf.
  2. (botany) Bump on a cactus out of which grow clusters of spines.
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The flowers: usually opening during the day and born from a flowering areole set in the axils of the tubercules.
The spines grow from an areole covered with glochids, which are tiny, barbed spines characteristic of all Opuntia.
The surface of the cell is coarsely areolate, with a pore in each areole.

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