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reticulum

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reticulum /rɪˈtɪkjʊləm/

▶noun (pl. reticula /-lə/)

1 a fine network or net-like structure.

2 Zoology the second stomach of a ruminant, having a honeycomb-like structure, receiving food from the rumen and passing it to the omasum.

– derivatives
reticular adjective.

– origin C17 (earlier (C16) as reticular): from L., dimin. of rete ‘net’.

'reticulum' also found in these Oxford entries:

endoplasmic reticulum - microsome - omasum - reticle - reticula - reticulate - reticule - reticuloendothelial - rumen

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