reticulatelyadv.
/rᵻˈtɪkjᵿlətli/, U.S. /rəˈtɪkjələtli/, /riˈtɪkjələtli/, /rəˈtɪkjəˌleɪtli/, /riˈtɪkjəˌleɪtli/ Chiefly Botany.
In a reticulate fashion or manner.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adverb] > like a net or network
netwise1577
telarly1658
reticulately1803
1803 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 18 661 If an outer one is held up to the light, the transverse septa of the longitudinal, parallel, linear chambers afford the appearance of its being reticulately veined.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 468 A barren oblong linear or lanceolate reticulately-veined blade.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 407 A few not very broad vessels thickened reticulately.
1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) xiv. 390 The dark one-celled conidia are spherical and slightly spiny or reticulately marked.
1976 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 194 179 An unusual type of calcification in which small hexagonal crystallites..are reticulately arranged with an organic matrix.
2007 Mycol. Res. 111 1386/2 The two species of Tliletia with reticulately ornamented teliospores known to infect Lolium and Festuca are T. contraversa..and T. lolii.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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