pest
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1. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. (noun.animal)
hyponym | : | vermin, |
definition | : | any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats (noun.animal) |
2. a persistently annoying person (noun.person)
hypernym | : | persecutor, tormenter, tormentor, |
definition | : | someone who torments (noun.person) |
3. any epidemic disease with a high death rate (noun.state)
hypernym | : | epidemic disease, epidemic disease, |
definition | : | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people (noun.state) |
4. 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 (noun.state)
hyponym | : | bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica, |
definition | : | the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person (noun.state) |
hyponym | : | plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, |
definition | : | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever (noun.state) |
hyponym | : | septicemic plague, |
definition | : | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person (noun.state) |
5. a persistently annoying person (noun.person)
6. any epidemic disease with a high death rate (noun.state)
derivation | : | pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, |
definition | : | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease (adj.all) |
7. 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 (noun.state)
8. a persistently annoying person (noun.person)
9. any epidemic disease with a high death rate (noun.state)
derivation | : | pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, |
definition | : | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease (adj.all) |
10. 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 (noun.state)
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