| 单词 | mosquito-proof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmosquito-proof mosquito-proof adj. ΚΠ a1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation (1912) I. ii. 367 They are too delicate and unfitte to begine new-plantations and collonies, that cannot enduer the biting of a muskeeto; we would wish shuch to keepe at home till at least they be muskeeto proofe. 1863 Harper's Mag. Nov. 858/1 There was once a man in the city who insisted on it that he was mosquito-proof. 1900 Science 18 May 795/2 A mosquito-proof malaria hut has been constructed by Messrs. Humphrey, of Knightsbridge. 1986 Ecol. Monogr. 56 328 [Birds of several species] were collected from high-altitude forest habitats on Mauna Loa, where avian malaria is virtually absent, and transported in mosquito-proof cages to the Avian Disease Laboratory. < as lemmas |
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