reticulate
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"For decades, the question of how reticulate veins form has remained open, and finally we have a plausible answer" in Chinese money plants' Voronoi patterns.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
Monocots have leaves with parallel venation and dicot leaves have reticulate, net-like venation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In dicots, however, the veins of the leaf have a net-like appearance, forming a pattern known as reticulate venation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
A leaf has parallel venation whereas leaflets show reticulate venation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Under the lens the warted, not reticulate, spores are diagnostic.
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 Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
Genetic studies have found that giraffe DNA falls into four distinct clusters: the Northern giraffe, the reticulated giraffe, the Masai giraffe and the Southern giraffe.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
However, such incidents have only been reliably documented in Asia, and with snakes known as reticulated pythons.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024
Kendi means ‘loved one’ in Swahili, paying homage to the language spoken in Kenya, where reticulated giraffes can be found in the wild.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
Rob Byrne, from Bishopstoke, suffered minor injuries after the male reticulated python entered his conservatory and tried to bite his arm.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023
He had no idea why he’d become a reticulated python, but it did explain his dream about slowly swallowing a cow.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Cardono's keen black eyes, twinkling hither and thither, a myriad crows' feet reticulating out from their corners like spiders' webs, took in the landscape, and every object in it.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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