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.
Usage examples of "mosquito netting".
The bed was against the wall to his right, ghostly with the folds of mosquito netting draped around it.
The correct procedure, and one which should be taught all young officers at every small arms course if I had anything to say about it, and who knows but what I will have, is the employment of a seine or net made of common mosquito netting.
Sometimes he lay under the mosquito netting, acutely aware of his comatose member, and tried to think of all the women he had had, one by one, then all the women he had ever wanted, including actresses, models, and famous figures from history (the Marilyn Monroe/Cleopatra double-team-in-warm-pudding scenario kept him distracted for almost an hour).
Then she began to cut our mosquito netting into long sheets and stitch the layers together.
Liam used his knife to tear off pieces of mosquito netting from the sack of emergency supplies and made bandages for her hands, knotting them firmly behind her knuckles.
He took her that way, pulled to the edge of the bed and with only her lower body bared, and the mosquito netting between them.
She took off his boots and outer uniform, which had a foul swampy odor, and tucked the mosquito netting about him.
One was a light and delicately woven mosquito netting which we often draped over ourselves even during the daylight marches, so pestilent were the flying insects.
Goto Dengo sleeps that night in a hammock stretched between two trees, protected by mosquito netting.
Bertram swung his legs over the edge of the bed and parted the mosquito netting.
But since that day when he became aware of his own nakedness, it was not fear of the dark that drove him to crawl in under her mosquito netting but an urge to feel Amaranta’.
Stripped to his undershirt, Colonel Houssong was standing at the open window with his forehead resting against the mosquito netting.