pest

Words with a similar base: pest, pesterer, pestilence, pestis

'pest'

[plague.n.01] as in: 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

'pest'

[plague.n.02] as in: any epidemic disease with a high death rate

'pest'

[pest.n.03] as in: a persistently annoying person

'pest'

[pest.n.04] as in: any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

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

Origins

					pest (English)
└── peste (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
    └── pestis (Latin)

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