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

They regard the small well-marked series which have been styled natural families, as groups which should be placed between the isolated species and their nearest neighbours so as to form a kind of reticulation.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel

In one specimen there was only a single open pore; generally, there are many variously-shaped open spaces, the bone forming an irregular reticulation.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Darwin, Charles

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 Darwin, Erasmus

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