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# reticulate

«reticulate» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a pattern of lines crossing each other like a net…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x1)
- Grass has parallel veins, not reticulate ones. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x3)
- The reticulated python is one of the longest snakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x4)
- The reticulated giraffe has neat net-like patches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/#x5)
- A fishing net is a reticulate pattern. [tree →](https://md.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).

### In the corpora

- [The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reticulate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reticulate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.