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

They regard the small well-marked series which have been styled natural families, as groups which should be placed between the isolated species and their nearest neighbours so as to form a kind of reticulation.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel

Mrs. Tree was over seventy, but apart from an amazing reticulation of wrinkles netted close and fine like a woven veil, she showed little sign of her great age.

From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Fulton, Robert I.

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.

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