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

Sporangia sub-globose, crowded or superimposed, irregular sessile; hypothallus none; capillitium of slender tubules, arising from the sporangium base, branched, marked with branching veins in an irregular reticulation, and terminating in free extremities.

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)

The stylist may vault airily into the saddle of logic, or in the delicate reticulation of his silver-fire paragraphs he may take, as an exemplar, John Henry Newman.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

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 Massee, George

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