Jump to user comments
Noun
- 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
- a persistently annoying person
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- 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