Definition of Reticulate

1. Verb. Form a net or a network.

Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Reticulation, Reticulum

2. Adjective. Resembling or forming a network. "A reticulated highway system"

3. Verb. Distribute by a network, as of water or electricity.
Generic synonyms: Distribute
Derivative terms: Reticulum

4. Verb. Divide so as to form a network.
Generic synonyms: Form
Derivative terms: Reticulation, Reticulum

Definition of Reticulate

1. a. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

Definition of Reticulate

1. Adjective. Network-like in form or appearance. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To distribute or move via a network. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To divide into or form a network. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To create a network. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reticulate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Medical Definition of Reticulate

1. Forming a network. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reticulate

reticular erythematous mucinosis
reticular fibre
reticular formation
reticular layer of corium
reticular membrane
reticular nuclei of the brainstem
reticular nucleus of thalamus
reticular substance
reticular tissue
reticularia
reticularian
reticularians
reticularis cell
reticularly
reticulate (current term)
reticulated
reticulated bone
reticulated corpuscle
reticulated python
reticulated water
reticulated waters
reticulately
reticulates
reticulating
reticulation
reticulations
reticule
reticules
reticulin

Literary usage of Reticulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"reticulate VESSELS reticulate vessels are of common occurrence in ... The walls of reticulate vessels are thickened to a greater extent than are the walls ..."

2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Certain organs can be grouped together with reference to their reticulate fiber framework, in which multicellular gland tubes are surrounded by a scarcely ..."

3. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Excepting for the absence of the vibratory oral membrane, Cohn* regards this form as most nearly resembling Glaucoma; the indurated and reticulate cuticle ..."

4. Laboratory Exercises in Botany by Edson Sewell Bastin (1894)
"('l) The pinni-reticulate, or pinnately-netted, venation is the particular variety represented in ... The reticulate type is pre-eminently that found among ..."

5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"... a thin,reticulate coral, the surface of which, magnified, is shown iu Fig. 306 a; Fig. 307, S. — Fig. ..."

6. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"... the melon tribe, all our forest trees, if- These are also distinguished at a glance, by the structure of their leaves, which are reticulate-veined, ..."

7. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... at D swimming freely by their flagellate appendages, and at E creeping in the amoeboid condition; F, fully developed reticulate organism, ..."

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