mosquito net

noun

: a net or screen for keeping out mosquitoes

Examples of mosquito net in a Sentence

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In the bedrooms, mosquito nets swathed four-poster beds. Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025 One of the more surreal knock-on effects of the gutting of USAID is that the U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more. Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025 The Chinese government has distributed mosquito nets and sprayed insecticide through residential areas, streets and places where people work outside. Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2025 These methods include the mosquito coils, repellents, mosquito nets and other methods to repel, kill and prevent mosquitoes. Chad De Guzman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mosquito net

Word History

First Known Use

1745, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mosquito net was in 1745

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“Mosquito net.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mosquito%20net. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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mosquito net

noun
: a net for keeping out mosquitoes
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