pest

Definition of Pest in English :

Noun

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

2. pest, pestilence, plague

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

3. blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer

a persistently annoying person

4. pest

any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

Example Sentences:
'he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests'
'many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pest

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noun

1.

a person or thing that annoys, esp by imposing itself when it is not wanted; nuisance

2.

a.

any organism that damages crops, injures or irritates livestock or man, or reduces the fertility of land

b.

(as modifier)

pest control

3. rare

an epidemic disease or pestilence

Pest

see synonyms of pest

noun

1.

a person or thing that causes trouble, annoyance, discomfort, etc.; nuisance; specif., any destructive or troublesome insect, small animal, weed, etc.

2. Rare

a fatal epidemic disease; esp., bubonic plague

Pest

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A former town of north-central Hungary on the left bank of the Danube River. Since 1873 it has been part of Budapest.

n.

1. An annoying person or thing; a nuisance.

2. An organism, typically an insect, that sickens or annoys humans, hampers human activities, damages crops or food products, harms livestock, or causes damage to buildings.

3. A deadly epidemic disease; a pestilence.

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