reticular

Anything reticular is like a net. A spider web is reticular.

Nets are interwoven with holes: they're used to catch fish and other things. Anything that resembles a net — or a network — can be called reticular. Many hammocks are reticular, and so is the knitting of many quilts and blankets. This word is often used in biology for parts of organisms that are net-like. Parts of our nervous system are often described as reticular, because the nerves resemble a net and also form a network.

Definitions of reticular

1. adjective

   resembling or forming a network
   synonyms: reticulate

   cancellate, cancellated, clathrate

   having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows

   crisscross, crisscrossed

   marked with crossing lines

   fretted, interlaced, latticed, latticelike

   having a pattern of fretwork or latticework

   interconnected, interrelated

   reciprocally connected

   lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, webby, weblike

   having open interstices or resembling a web

   meshed

   resembling a network

   networklike

   having a network of veins or ribs