mosquito net
mosquito net noun: a fine net, placed around a bed, in a window opening, etc., to provide protection against mosquitoes and other insects, and the diseases carried by them.
Noun
mosquito net (plural mosquito nets)
- A fine net, placed around a bed, in a window opening, etc., to provide protection against mosquitoes and other insects, and the diseases carried by them.
- Child-trouble widened her brown eyes as she turned them on the shrouded figure stiffly outlined by the sheet, now partly screened by the mosquito-net.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127
- In the room the mosquito net was down, ghost-grey in the falling light.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 505
- Synonyms:
- wire blinds
mosquito net meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
mosquito net in Hindi
- fine net used to protect against mosquitos
- मच्छरदानी macchardānī, मसहरी masahrī
mosquito net in Tamil
- fine net used to protect against mosquitos
- கொசுவலை kocuvalai
mosquito net in Urdu
- مچھر دانی
mosquito net in Bengali
- fine net used to protect against mosquitos
- মশারি mośari
More languagesFewer languages
- mosquito net in Kannada
- ಸೊಳ್ಳೆಪರದೆ, ನುಸಿಬಲೆ, ಸೊಳ್ಳೆಯ ಪರದೆ
- mosquito net in Punjabi
- ਮੱਛਰਦਾਨੀ macchardānī
- mosquito net in Gujarati
- મચ્છરદાની macchardānī
- mosquito net in Tagalog
- kulambo
- mosquito net in Arabic
- نَامُوسِيَّة nāmūsiyya
- mosquito net in Malay
- kelambu
- mosquito net in Indonesian
- kelambu
- mosquito net in Thai
- มุ้ง múng
- mosquito net in Vietnamese
- màn, mùng
- mosquito net in Myanmar
- ခြင်ထောင် hkranghtaung
Synonyms of mosquito net
- wire blinds
Forms of mosquito net
| plural | mosquito nets |
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Questions about mosquito net
- What does mosquito net mean?
- Mosquito net means a fine net, placed around a bed, in a window opening, etc., to provide protection against mosquitoes and other insects, and the diseases carried by them.
- What is mosquito net in Hindi?
- Mosquito net in Hindi is मच्छरदानी (macchardānī), मसहरी (masahrī). See Mosquito net meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mosquito net?
- Mosquito net is a noun.
- What is the plural of mosquito net?
- The plural of mosquito net is mosquito nets.
Words near mosquito net in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mosquito net (page history and authors); mosquito net (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mosquito net (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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