pest
Nouns
- (n) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal pestilence, pestis, plague,
- (n) any epidemic disease with a high death rate pestilence, plague,
- (n) a persistently annoying person blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer,
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(n) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
- he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests
- many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides