"wire netting" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wire nettings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wire netting (countable and uncountable, plural wire nettings)
  1. A hexagonal network of interwoven wire used in fencing; chicken wire. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: hardware cloth, wire gauze Translations (hexagonal network of interwoven wire): 鐵絲網 (Chinese Mandarin), 铁丝网 (tiěsīwǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), metallilankaverkko (Finnish), συρματόπλεγμα (syrmatóplegma) [neuter] (Greek), reticolato rete metallica (Italian), gjerdenetting (Norwegian), alambrado [masculine] (Portuguese), cerca de arame [feminine] (Portuguese), mallazo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wire_netting-en-noun-yjCinDM3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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