Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mosquito \Mos*qui"to\ (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[-o]), n.; pl. Mosquitoes (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[=o]z). [Sp. mosquito, fr. moscafly, L. musca. Cf. Musket.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larv[ae] and pup[ae], called wigglers, are aquatic.
Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows.
Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels.
Mosquito hawk (Zo["o]l.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.
Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.
Wiktionary
n. A fine net placed around a bed to protect the occupant against mosquitos and the diseases carried by them
WordNet
n. a fine net or screen (especially around beds) to protect against mosquitos
Wikipedia
A mosquito net offers protection against mosquitos, flies, and other insects, and thus against the diseases they may carry. Examples include malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and various forms of encephalitis, including the West Nile virus. To be effective the mesh of a mosquito net must be fine enough to exclude such insects without reducing visibility or air flow to unacceptable levels. It is possible to increase the effectiveness of a mosquito net greatly by treating it with an appropriate insecticide or mosquito repellant.
Usage examples of "mosquito net".
He stripped off his pants and slipped under the mosquito net and lay naked on his mattress, very pleased with himself.
The bed had only a sheet on it but I rolled up one of the Indian rugs and made a forty-five degree kink in it and put it under the sheet, bunching the pillow and pulling down the mosquito net to cover the bed.
She could just make out a sleeping figure through the mosquito net.
He had checked it once in the night as best he could under the sheet, under the mosquito net.
Grays were staring at him through the mosquito net in the light of early dawn.
The door was partially open and the wind blew in, stirring the mosquito net, setting it dancing.
For two months he sleeps on a beach on New Caledonia, stretched out under a mosquito net, dreaming of worse places, polishing his line.
Waterhouse gets there before they do, and spends a sweaty night under a mosquito net.
She lay on the bed in the cool, spacious room under the mosquito net, rested and growing sleepy, and what she thought about was Ringer Harman, and the red country he had told her of round Alice Springs, and euros, and wild horses.
She threw the mosquito net in a heap beside the temple wall and flung herself down on it, slapping at bugs with more energy than accuracy.
A large natural wood headboard held one end of a once-white mosquito net.
I lay there staring up through the mosquito net at the pressure lamp on its hook in the ceiling, moths clustering thickly around it.