reticulated, ppl. a.
(rɪˈtɪkjʊleɪtɪd)
[f. as reticulate a. + -ed.]
1. Constructed or arranged like a net; made or marked so as to resemble a net or network.
In predicative use also const. by or with.
| attrib. a 1728 Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils (1729) 49 The Intervals of the Cavities, rising a little, make a pretty kind of reticulated Work. 1796 Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 260 A small piece of fine cambric, or reticulated silver wire stretched before it. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 479 Some are composed of reticulated fibres, or masses, of small spines. 1857 Livingstone Trav. 612 The absence of both these rhinoceroses among the reticulated rivers in the central valley may easily be accounted for. 1885 Law Times LXXIX. 247/1 A parallelogram covered with reticulated lines. |
| predic. 1755 Johnson, Network, any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 885 Leaves smaller and shorter than in 1; fine green, not shining, not reticulated. 1802 J. Playfair Huttonian The. 301 The strata are..reticulated by the veins. 1842 Emerson Transcendentalist Wks. (Bohn) II. 290 This pretty web..will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue. 1877 Thomson Voy. Challenger I. 195 Black oval bodies about an inch long, with the surface reticulated. |
b. spec. in names of varieties of animals, plants, or minerals.
| 1777 Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. Pl. lxxii. No. 92 Reticulated Whelk. 1783 J. Barbut Vermes 86 The Reticulated Sea Star..is stellated with reticulated sharp-pointed rays. 1816 Cleaveland Min. 539 What has been called reticulated cobalt appears to be native silver. 1855 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 91 Reticulated Willow, or Netted or Wrinkle-leaved Willow. 1883 Standard 3 Aug. 5/6 One of the reticulated pythons managed to escape. |
c. spec. of porcelain, etc.
Cf. pierced ppl. a. c.
| 1881 Audsley & Bowes Keramic Art of Japan 143 There are several specimens of pierced, or what is termed reticulated, porcelain. 1908 J. F. Blacker Chats on Oriental China xiii. 152 There is a white biscuit class, very rare, often having two walls or divisions, of which the outer one only is biscuit, reticulated or pierced with a fine network or trellis of various patterns, through which the interior wall can be seen. 1970 [see pierced ppl. a. c]. 1974 Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 245 (caption) Teapot with reticulated outer wall and handle with moulded terminals, creamware, Leeds, c. 1785. 1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 166 Reserved on a reticulated florette and wan diaper-ground infilled in green. |
2. Arch. a. (
Cf. reticular a. 2.)
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 306 They [the ancients] had their reticular or reticulated walls. 1851 Turner Dom. Archit. III. ii. vii. 321 A timber house, dating apparently from the fourteenth century, as it has reticulated panelling. |
b. Of tracery: (see
quot.).
| 1849 Sharpe Decorated Window Tracery 107 A very large class of Windows..containing what has been called Reticulated Tracery, or Tracery formed by the repetition of the same foliated opening. |
3. Divided into small squares. (See
quot. 1867.)
| 1867 G. F. Chambers Astron. vii. i. 621 The simplest form is that known as the Reticulated Micrometer. It consists of an eye-piece of low power, having stretched across it a number of wires at right angles to and at equal..distances from each other. 1877 Ibid. (ed. 3) vii. viii. 726 For most amateurs a reticulated micrometer will suffice. |