Having canaliculi or small grooves and channels; marked with fine furrows or ridges.
From Latin canaliculus plus the suffix -ate (meaning 'having or characterized by'), creating an adjective describing something with multiple small channels.
Plant botanists use this word to describe leaf veining patterns and stem structures—it reveals how nature repeats the same channeling design at every scale, from river deltas to plant vessels to bone structure.
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