a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite |
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing |
the extended spatial location of something | |
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | |
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | |