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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling or forming a net or network: reticulate veins of a leaf.
  2. v. To make a net or network of.
  3. v. To mark with lines resembling a network.
  4. v. To form a net or network.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Netted; resembling network; having distinct lines or veins crossing as in network; covered with netted lines. Specifically
  2. To form into network; cover with intersecting lines resembling network
  3. In zoology, to cross irregularly so as to form meshes like those of a net: as, lines which reticulate on a surface.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Network-like in form or appearance.
  2. v. transitive To distribute or move via a network.
  3. v. transitive To divide into or form a network.
  4. v. intransitive To create a network.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted.
  2. adj. Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. resembling or forming a network
  2. v. distribute by a network, as of water or electricity
  3. v. divide so as to form a network
  4. v. form a net or a network

Etymologies

  1. From Latin rēticulātus ("reticulated, net-like"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin rēticulātus, from rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The redness develops in a particular pattern, as seen in the photo, called reticulate or net like.”

    Gizmodo

  • “The phylogenetic expression of ambiguity is reticulate evolution.”

    A Disclaimer for Behe?

  • “In reticulate evolution, there is no unique notion of genealogical descent: genetic content can be distributed collectively.”

    A Disclaimer for Behe?

  • “Andrea Lucky A new reddish-brown ant, Lordomyrma reticulate, was found in 2008, expanding the range of the genus to include Southeast Asia.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Borneo

  • “The structure of living species, then, is not so much dendritic as reticulate.”

    Archive 2009-01-01

  • “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.”

    A New Book

  • “At times, reefs are identified by additional terms such as deltaic, cuspate, and reticulate.”

    Coral reef

  • “Any amount of reticulate evolution during that split would be hard to assess, and easily obscured by strong, divergent selection on the dog lineages.”

    Controversial origins of the domestic dog

  • “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.”

    Notes on New Zealand Fish

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. netted

equivalents (20)

Other words for ‘reticulate’

  1. interconnected
  2. netlike
  3. latticelike
  4. webby
  1. weblike
  2. crisscross
  3. interlaced
  4. crisscrossed
  1. Meshed
  2. latticed
  3. networklike
  4. interrelated
  1. fretted
  2. clathrate
  3. webbed
  4. cancellate
  1. Lacy
  2. cancellated
  3. netted
  4. reticulated

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. distribute
  1. form
  1. change

reverse dictionary (46)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. collosphæridæ
  2. reticulated
  3. reticulation
  4. dimere
  5. elevate-reticulate
  6. hexamere
  7. reticulate - punctate
  8. trachelius
  9. polythalamia
  1. reticularly
  2. reticulate
  3. reticulose
  4. retinerved
  5. calcinea
  6. calyculate
  7. dictyopteris
  8. stinking ash
  9. retiform
  1. retiferous
  2. frost's bolete
  3. retiped
  4. boletellus russellii
  5. boletus frostii
  6. boletus luridus
  7. boletus pulcherrimus
  8. boletus variipes
  9. hamiltonia
  1. lesleya
  2. monothalamia
  3. net
  4. netted
  5. rhipidogorgia
  6. rugose
  7. sialidæ
  8. simorhynchus
  9. swan
  1. synthliborhamphus
  2. antrophyum
  3. axinellidæ
  4. calyx
  5. dictyoid
  6. linopteris
  7. merulius
  8. pentamere
  9. protospongidæ
  1. pteriacea

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  • 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

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