pest




pest - 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
  • any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  • a persistently annoying person
  • any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
  • pest - thesaurus

    blighter   cuss   gadfly   pesterer   pestilence   pestis   plague