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mosquito nets

mosquito nets is the plural of mosquito net.

Meaning of mosquito net

Noun

mosquito net (plural mosquito nets)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    wire blinds

Questions about mosquito nets

What is mosquito nets the plural of?
Mosquito nets is the plural of mosquito net.

Words near mosquito nets in the dictionary

  1. mosquito fleets
  2. mosquito hawk
  3. mosquito hawks
  4. Mosquito Island
  5. mosquito net
  6. mosquito nets
  7. mosquito netting
  8. mosquito nettings
  9. mosquito parties
  10. mosquito party
  11. mosquito plant

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