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
P. 5-7 cm. obtuse, honey colour, hispid with crowded simple black fibrils; g. dingy yellow; s. bulbous, with a lax reticulation of black fibrils; sp. ——. arenatus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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
Do you see how this iron reticulation of social rule and custom and force makes a scaffolding on which this tameless race build up their lives?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
The snake's body was about the thickness of a man's thumb, and his back was unobtrusively but exquisitely marked with a reticulation of fine lines.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts