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# reticulate

adjective (reticulate — science, formal); verb (reticulate, reticulates, reticulated, reticulating — rare)

«reticulate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (science) Reticulate means having a pattern of lines crossing each other like a net, as in the veins of a leaf («reticulate venation»). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#m1)
2. (rare, formal) To reticulate is to divide or mark into a network. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#m2)
3. A reticulated python is a huge snake with a net-like pattern on its skin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on plants, leaves with net-like veins (like oak or rose leaves) have reticulate venation, while grass leaves have parallel veins — a way to sort flowering plants. In zoos, the reticulated python and the reticulated giraffe are named for their net patterns.

### Examples

- Rose leaves have reticulate veins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x1)
- Grass has parallel veins, not reticulate ones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x2)
- Hold the leaf up to the light to see its reticulate pattern. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x3)
- The reticulated python is one of the longest snakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x4)
- The reticulated giraffe has neat net-like patches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x5)
- A fishing net is a reticulate pattern. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x6)

### Note

Formal, scientific word; plain English: net-like. From Latin «reticulum», a little net. Pronounced «ri-TIK-yoo-lut» (adjective) or «ri-TIK-yoo-late» (verb).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «reticulate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«reticulate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/reticulate.html) on Mova free.