Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mosquito net

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: mosquito net
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"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."
"In the room the mosquito net was down, ghost-grey in the falling light."

Inflected Forms

mosquito nets (plural)

Synonyms

wire blinds

Questions

What does mosquito net mean?: 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.

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