Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reticulum

3 senses of reticulum

Sense 1
Reticulum -- (a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Hydrus)
       INSTANCE OF=> constellation -- (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 2
reticulum -- (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))
       => network, web -- (an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth")

Sense 3
reticulum, second stomach -- (the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)
       => stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket -- (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

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