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

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)

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

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

The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various