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/rɪŋ əv kˈələr/ Listen

Ring of color

noun

Small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite. Synonym: areola.

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"Ring of color" Quotes from Famous Books

... at some one's eyeball. It is like the picture, isn't it?—bright white around the edge and then a ring of color, brown or blue or gray; and inside the color-ring, or iris, a little round black hole that we call the pupil. Watch the little hole change as you turn the face toward the window. It becomes ever so much smaller. Now turn ...

— The Child's Day • Woods Hutchinson