1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 147 The like Reticulate grain is observable in some Russia Leather.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 457/1 Reticulate, or Net Worke, walls made Net-wayes or Loseng-wise.

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1419 The branches of this [coral] run one into another without any reticulate order.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 502 Morel is a Fungus that is reticulate or netted all over the outside or upper surface.

1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature II. i. 21 The neuropterous insects, or those with four reticulate or net-work wings.

1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 86 With light and shade reticulate.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 944 When the inner surface is magnified it appears to be reticulate.

1905 C. S. Sargent Man. Trees N. Amer. 312 Coccolobis laurifolia... Leaves ovate,..with conspicuous pale midribs and 3 or 4 pairs of remote primary veins connected by prominent reticulate veinlets.

1916 W. H. Fitch & W. G. Smith Illustr. Brit. Flora (ed. 4) 233 Salix reticulata, L. Reticulate Willow.

1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries ii. 34 (caption) Reticulate dragonet, Callionymus reticulatus,..male in courtship display.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 90/1 A stream or river bed is said to have a braided pattern when the deeper channels form a lacy or reticulate network of divergent and convergent members.

1999 Plant Cell 11 1619/1 To check for allelism, lines were crossed and the F₁ and F₂ progeny were scored for reticulate leaves.

1842 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 26 The formation of such secondary threads is frequently observable in reticulate vessels and in some forms of scalariform vessels.

1873 F. H. Hooker & J. D. Hooker tr. E. Le Maout & J. Decaisne Gen. Syst. Bot. 116 Cells may either be homogeneous, or punctate, or rayed, or reticulate, or spiral.

1907 W. C. Stevens Plant Anat. vii. 109 The tracheids are elongated cells especially adapted to be water carriers by numerous thin places in the walls in the form of bordered pits or associated with spiral, annular, or reticulate thickenings.

1976 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) ii. ii. 304 The [cell] wall becomes thickened, usually by a process of opposition. In the conducting elements, for example, annular, spiral or reticulate thickenings are formed, and lignification sets in.

2002 Systematic Bot. 27 35 (caption) Note also the reticulate tracheids subtending it.

1928 D. B. Swingle Textbk. Syst. Bot. vi. 59 Whenever it can be established that different members of a group have separate ancestry, the group should be divided and the parts given distinct names if the interests of phylogenetic taxonomy are to be served. Otherwise a reticulate arrangement is formed.]

1938 J. S. Huxley in South-Eastern Naturalist & Antiquary 43 14 Evolution in most animals and plants proceeds by divergent branching: in these forms it has produced a network. Some new method of naming the different types produced by this ‘reticulate evolution’ seems called for.

1971 Madroño 21 206 There is considerable evidence here for a complex pattern of reticulate evolution.

1994 D. J. Merrell Adaptive Seascape ix. 118 Reticulate evolution has clearly been of great importance in the evolution of the higher plants where up to half of all species are estimated to be allopolyploid in origin.

1842 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 42 49 I may here remark, that the reticulate-leaved species..is the Leptoglottis of DeCandolle.

1880 R. Hogg & G. W. Johnson Wild Flowers Great Brit. XI. Pl. 811 Reticulate-leaved willow, Salix Reticulata.

1951 Proc. Alaskan Sci. Conf. 1950 Apr. 92 In summer, however, native green plants, such as the reticulate-leaved willow (Salix reticulata L.)..are eaten raw and unwashed.

1972 Kew Bull. 27 50 This species is closely related to the reticulate-leaved group including G[lochidion] retinerve.

1904 Proc. Pathol. Soc. Philadelphia 7 158 A mass of material passed during life from the intestine of a reticulate python.

1958 Charleston (West Virginia) Gaz. 21 July 19/1 This reticulate python of Asia also claims the title of World's Largest Snake.

2002 N. Rothfels Savages & Beasts 245 A reticulate python, 22–24 feet in length.

1817 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 44 1919 Nerve and large veins red, interstices reticulate-veined.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 377 Stem with 1–2 whorls of reticulate-veined leaves.

1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 148 Leaves—Alternate..acute or rarely rounded at the apex. Conspicuously reticulate-veined, midrib broad and primary veins prominent.

2002 M. A. Dirr Trees & Shrubs for Warm Climates 65/1 The lustrous dark green, serrated, reticulate-veined leaves, 2 to 4½in. long, are beautiful.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. i. 330 The Straw Net is reticulated from straw ropes.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 244 Access to it was..prevented by a horrible net of cobweb, and a band of the hideous artificers by which it had been reticulated.

a1943 H. Zimmer King & Corpse (1947) ii. i. 259 Such a metamorphosis into the opposite, into the absolutely alien, is what throws the knots that reticulate the net of the living whole and mesh the individual alive into the fabric.

1876 Melbourne Rev. 1 289 A water company was..formed for the purpose of reticulating Melbourne with water pipes.

1890 Southland (N.Z.) Times 20 May 2/4 The immense saving in the cost of reticulating electricity as compared with gas.

1908 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. Victoria 6 378 Some of the water pipes for reticulating the various buildings are also on hand.

1968 Esperance Advertiser (Albany, Austral.) 21 June 10/2 Drainage could become a big problem, now that water was being reticulated at Ravensthorpe.

2000 Business Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 17 The municipalities charge about R1 to reticulate the water in the city to individual consumers.

1795 A. H. Haworth Observ. Genus Mesembryanthemum ii. 404 All the leaves are..every way bespotted, with very minute, semipellucid irregularly confluent, or as it were reticulating zigzag, or maplike impunctations.

1841 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 102 The disk and rays are covered with oblong reticulating tubercles.

1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) iii. 54 Showing a thousand reticulating fissures.

1908 Jrnl. & Proc. Royal Soc. New South Wales 42 378 The use of large mains and reticulating pipes.

2005 Taxon 54 1004/1 The evolution of polyploid groups has not been divergent but reticulating.