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
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 Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 Erasmus Darwin
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 Samuel Butler
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