reticulation

Example Sentences

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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

High-Low Jack was the congenial spirit by whose active and intelligent aid he promised himself the pleasure of seeing before long the whole Pacific Ocean covered with a vast reticulation of electric cables.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

Five slender columns expand into and support a gilded reticulation on a dark crimson ground. 

From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn

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 Darwin, Erasmus

This is a very interesting species closely related to the preceding from which it differs chiefly in the reticulation and generally more uniform character of the spores.

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)