Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-TIC'U-LAR
RET'I-CLERE-TIC'U-LATE, or RE-TIC'U-LA-TED
RE-TIC'U-LAR, a. [supra.]
Having the form of a net or of net-work; formed with interstices; as, a reticular body or membrane. – Encyc. In anatomy, the reticular body, or rete mucosum, is the layer of the skin, intermediate between the cutis and the cuticle; the principal seat of color in man; the reticular membrane is the same as the cellular membrane. – Parr.
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