Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling or forming a net or network: reticulate veins of a leaf.
- v. To make a net or network of.
- v. To mark with lines resembling a network.
- v. To form a net or network.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Netted; resembling network; having distinct lines or veins crossing as in network; covered with netted lines. Specifically
- To form into network; cover with intersecting lines resembling network
- In zoology, to cross irregularly so as to form meshes like those of a net: as, lines which reticulate on a surface.
Wiktionary
- adj. Network-like in form or appearance.
- v. To distribute or move via a network.
- v. To divide into or form a network.
- v. To create a network.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted.
- adj. Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling or forming a network
- v. distribute by a network, as of water or electricity
- v. divide so as to form a network
- v. form a net or a network
Etymologies
- Latin rēticulātus, from rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net.
Examples
“The redness develops in a particular pattern, as seen in the photo, called reticulate or net like.”
“The phylogenetic expression of ambiguity is reticulate evolution.”
“In reticulate evolution, there is no unique notion of genealogical descent: genetic content can be distributed collectively.”
“Andrea Lucky A new reddish-brown ant, Lordomyrma reticulate, was found in 2008, expanding the range of the genus to include Southeast Asia.”
“The structure of living species, then, is not so much dendritic as reticulate.”
“This could be interpreted as a linear representation of history (a directed, non-reticulate network), or, as Hennig intended, as a non-nested hierarchy with ancestor-descendant relationship as the organizational criterion.”
“At times, reefs are identified by additional terms such as deltaic, cuspate, and reticulate.”
“Any amount of reticulate evolution during that split would be hard to assess, and easily obscured by strong, divergent selection on the dog lineages.”
“March 18, 2006, 8: 48 am enter wsop says: enter wsop reticulate! revolving Snowbelt minutemen. carryover street”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Graham on Torture and the Geneva Convention:
“He had then overlooked the fact that Johnston had associated his own name with a Lophotes taken in Tasmanian waters: L. guntheri is described as having reticulate markings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reticulate’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 314 more...
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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verb-general
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Words I met in December 2010
Some words I came to learn the meaning of in December of twenty ten.
knitandpurl "My right hand saves what my left burns
as if what's left—that black cloud, those few
reticulate, neglected trees—could be kept
where everything but what you want is free."
-from "Spring Thaw" by Cynthia Zarin, in The Ada Poems, p 19 Jun 5, 2011