Reticulation

Reticulation is a net-like pattern, arrangement, or structure.

Reticulation or Reticulated may refer to:

Biology

• Reticulation (single-access key), in biology, a structure of an identification tree, where there are several possible routes to a correct identification
• A coloration pattern of some animals (e.g., the reticulated giraffe)
• An arrangement of veins in a leaf, with the veins interconnected like a network
• The endoplasmic reticulum within a cell, often resembling a net
• A phylogenetic network, the result when hybrid speciation, introgression and paraphyletic speciation is applied to a phylogenetic tree

Other uses

• Reticulated water (Australia, South Africa), water from a piped network, see: wiktionary:reticulated water
  • Reticulation, a type of garden irrigation system
• Reticulation (metalwork), a decorative technique in metalworking

See also

• Reticular (disambiguation)