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Mosquito net   /məskˈitoʊ nɛt/   Listen
Mosquito net

noun
1.
A fine net or screen (especially around beds) to protect against mosquitos.





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"Mosquito net" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mosquitoes were beginning to fill the night with their thin screaming. Small, almost impalpable, colourless insects, whose bite is like a red hot wire and who can penetrate the meshes of an ordinary mosquito net with ease, began to infest the place. These were sand-flies. They are surely the most successfully maddening insect ever designed by the Lord of Flies. They give rise to a malady known as sand-fly fever, which ...
— In Mesopotamia • Martin Swayne


Words linked to "Mosquito net" :   screen


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