Meaning & use

reticulation

noun·Advanced

A network of interlacing lines, veins, or fine cracks resembling a net.

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The dried lakebed showed a fine reticulation of cracks across its surface.

Botanists studied the reticulation of veins on the underside of the leaf.

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Reticulation is a technical, descriptive word common in biology, geology, and art criticism, less common in everyday speech.

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