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 reticulate, net-like venation and dicot leaves have parallel 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
Monocots have leaves with parallel venation and dicot leaves have reticulate, net-like venation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Skeleton reticulate, loose, with definite radiating and transverse fibres held together by a small quantity of spongin; the fibres slender but not extremely so.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
The African habitat - which was built in 2001 - is home to reticulated giraffes, maneless zebra, white rhino, ostrich, crowned crane and a greater kudu.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
On Thursday, the Great Plains Zoo and Butterfly House & Aquarium in Sioux Falls announced the death of Chioke, an 18-year-old reticulated giraffe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
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
“Our water supply is just what we can get from the sky and from the rivers. We don’t have a reticulated supply.”
From National Geographic ● Feb. 6, 2024
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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