RETICULATE

I. adjective Etymology: Latin reticulatus, from reticulum Date: 1658 resembling a net or network, being or involving evolutionary change dependent on genetic recombination involving diverse interbreeding populations, ~ly adverb II. verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology: back-formation from ~d, adjective, ~ Date: circa 1728 transitive verb to divide, mark, or construct so as to form a network, intransitive verb to become ~d