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)

And not only the least trace of reticulation is avoided, but the tissue, drying quite flat, lies in perfect contact with the negative, which is quite important to obtain proofs exactly sharp all over.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

The former still bear the Lion of St. Mark's, and one long nine-pounder is exquisitely ornamented with a reticulation of vines cast in relief over the whole length of it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

The color of the iris in living frogs varies from creamy silver to grayish yellow or bronze with a variable amount of black reticulation.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.