reticulation
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- interreticulation noun
Etymology
Origin of reticulation
First recorded in 1665–75; reticulate + -ion
Example Sentences
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He says that desalinated water probably costs two or three times more than if you had to build a damn and reticulation system, but it would have cost more a few years ago.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2010
While the terminations of the placental arteries and veins are spread in fine reticulation on the sides of these cells.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Five slender columns expand into and support a gilded reticulation on a dark crimson ground.
From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn
The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
The snake's body was about the thickness of a man's thumb, and his back was unobtrusively but exquisitely marked with a reticulation of fine lines.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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