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| pest [ pest ] (plural pests) |
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1. damaging organism: an organism that is damaging to livestock, crops, humans, or land fertility
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2. annoying person or thing: somebody or something that is a nuisance
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3. outbreak of disease: an epidemic of infectious or contagious disease
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| [Mid-16th century. Via French, "pestilence" < Latin pestis] |
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