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

Spore-characters are probably the index most reliable, and the partial reticulation suggests association with Tubifera and for the present it may find station there, as in the English monograph.

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 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

Mrs. Tree was over ninety, but apart from an amazing reticulation of wrinkles, netted fine and close as a brown veil, she showed little sign of her great age.

From Mrs. Tree by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

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