a. [f. prec. + -AR.]
1. Consisting of areolæ, full of interstices; spec. in areolar (or connective) tissue: the mixture of fibrous and elastic tissue, which underlies the skin, and connects and supports the organs in other parts of the body.
1818. W. Lawrence, Nat. Hist. Man, II. ii. (1848), 185. The areolar tissue of the cutis.
1859. Carpenter, Anim. Phys., i. (1872), 39. This Areolar tissue is diffused through almost the whole fabric of the adult animal.
2. Of or pertaining to a small area. Cf. AREA 3.
1879. Newcomb & Holden, Astron., 126. This area is called the areolar velocity of the planet.
