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- English Word Reticulated Definition Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.
- English Word Reticulation Definition The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.
- English Word Reticule Definition A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.
- English Word Reticule Definition A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.
- English Word Reticulosa Definition Same as Reticularia.
- English Word Reticulose Definition Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure.
- English Word Reticulum Definition The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.
- English Word Reticulum Definition The neuroglia.
- English Word Retiform Definition Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.
- English Word Retina Definition The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.
- English Word Retinacula Definition of Retinaculum
- English Word Retinaculum Definition A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves.
- English Word Retinaculum Definition One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
- English Word Retinaculum Definition One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
- English Word Retinaculum Definition A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
- English Word Retinal Definition Of or pertaining to the retina.
- English Word Retinalite Definition A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
- English Word Retinasphalt Definition Alt. of Retinasphaltum
- English Word Retinasphaltum Definition Retinite.
- English Word Retinea Definition of Retineum
- English Word Retinerved Definition Having reticulated veins.
- English Word Retineum Definition That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.
- English Word Retinic Definition Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.
- English Word Retiniphorae Definition of Retinophora
- English Word Retinite Definition An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.
- English Word Retinitis Definition Inflammation of the retina.
- English Word Retinoid Definition Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.
- English Word Retinol Definition A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.
- English Word Retinophora Definition One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
- English Word Retinophoral Definition Of or pertaining to retinophorae.