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

In this reticulation of snow paths the drum is sounded and the flag raised.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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)

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