reticulation

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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

It is given to complete a mesh in the reticulation of the orders of life.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John

High-Low Jack was the congenial spirit by whose active and intelligent aid he promised himself the pleasure of seeing before long the whole Pacific Ocean covered with a vast reticulation of electric cables.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

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

Dr. Rex, l. c., has pointed out the lack of reticulation on the capillitium and calyculus.

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)