reticulate

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_A. reticulate, L. _

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  1. adjective Resembling or forming a net or network: reticulate veins of a leaf.
  2. transitive verb To make a net or network of.
  3. transitive verb To mark with lines resembling a network.

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  • Reelstand madding retrospection myomatosis, repair mogilalia otomyiasis reticulate autotrophic obviously! —  Top Headlines from World Press Review
  • Alternatively, genomic variations in reticulate bacteria, such as many intestinal and plant cell-associated Proteobacteria, will depend not only on these processes, but also on their genetic interactions with other bacterial strains. —  Planet Atheism
  • Boletus Frostii, with its distinctive, coarsely reticulate stipe, one of the very few non-poisonous boletes with red tube mouths on the underside of its pileus: —  Little Bang Theory
  • In this context, we propose a framework for a reticulate classification of phages based on gene content. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We apply a 2-step clustering method to this graph to generate a reticulate classification of phages: Each phage is associated with a membership vector, which quantitatively characterizes its membership to the set of clusters. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Latin rēticulātus, from rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net.

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  1. =F. réticulé =Portuguese reticulado =lt. reticolato, from Latin reticulatus, made like a net, from reticulum, a little net: see reticule.
  2. from reticulate, adjective
 

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/rəˈtɪkjuleɪt/
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