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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An anatomical mesh or network, as of veins, arteries, or nerves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In anatomy, a vascular network; a plexus, glomerulus, or congeries of small vessels: in botany, a structure like network.
  2. n. In certain astrolabes, a movable skeleton framework cut out of a circular sheet of metal, and lying between the planisphere and the diopter or alidade. It carries one or two pointers, also an eccentric ring marked with the signs of the zodiac, and several curved arms indicating the place of the pole of the ecliptic and of certain stars.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A network of blood vessels or nerves.
  2. n. An anatomical part resembling or including a network.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels

Etymologies

  1. From Latin rete. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin rēte, net. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. plexus

same context (18)

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  1. lusion
  2. undescended
  3. atrophic
  1. medullary
  2. ern
  3. overstimulation
  1. squamous
  2. contralateral
  3. tunica
  1. cosse
  2. follicular
  3. varicocele
  1. chorion
  2. mesenchyme
  3. testis
  1. adenosquamous
  2. liq
  3. visu

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wonder-net
  2. reticular
  3. reticulare
  1. retia
  2. amphicentric
  3. spine-cell
  1. vasoganglion
  2. melanopathia
  3. monocentric
  1. retial
  2. vasa efferentia
  3. retiferous
  1. glomerulus
  2. net
  3. network
  1. retiform
  2. tela
  3. tuft
  1. unipolar

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  • bilby Italian soccer jargon - 1. a goal scored; 2. the net attached to the goal posts. Dec 11, 2007

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