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

The iris was a golden bronze color with much black reticulation.

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

It is given to complete a mesh in the reticulation of the orders of life.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John

Dr. Rex, l. c., has pointed out the lack of reticulation on the capillitium and calyculus.

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