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
Skeleton dense, forming a close reticulation; radiating fibres slender but quite distinct, running up right through the sponge, crossed at frequent intervals by single spicules or groups of spicules.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
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.
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
This is a very interesting species closely related to the preceding from which it differs chiefly in the reticulation and generally more uniform character of the spores.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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