meshwork
[mesh-wurk]
- meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
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Origin of meshwork
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The corallum, when examined with a glass, looks like meshwork.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tideAugusta Foote Arnold
He climbed mechanically upwards, digging his toes into the meshwork of the sides, and sobbing from sheer weakness as he climbed.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties"Douglas English
I found that I was under the orders of a black villain and caught in a meshwork of crime.
The Valley of FearSir Arthur Conan Doyle
My first boma was a meshwork of thorns piled and interwoven together with the architectural simplicity of an Eskimo igloo.
In AfricaJohn T. McCutcheon
Again, there is between the cells a meshwork of yellow elastic fibers, and this is called yellow fibro-cartilage (Fig. 8).
A Practical PhysiologyAlbert F. Blaisdell