reticulation
Americannoun
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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
The color of the iris in living frogs varies from creamy silver to grayish yellow or bronze with a variable amount of black reticulation.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
Mrs. Tree was over seventy, but apart from an amazing reticulation of wrinkles netted close and fine like a woven veil, she showed little sign of her great age.
From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Fulton, Robert I.
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
In some individuals the dark reticulation on the dorsum is faint.
From A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group by Duellman, William E.
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