reticulation
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of reticulation
First recorded in 1665–75; reticulate + -ion
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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 eyes were sunken; and the veins stood out in deadly clear purplish reticulation with splotches of transfused blood under the shrivelled skin of the hands.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Erasmus Darwin
P. 5-7 cm. obtuse, honey colour, hispid with crowded simple black fibrils; g. dingy yellow; s. bulbous, with a lax reticulation of black fibrils; sp. ——. arenatus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Do you see how this iron reticulation of social rule and custom and force makes a scaffolding on which this tameless race build up their lives?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
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