pest
Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
Other meanings
An annoying person, a nuisance.
An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
A kind of
- animal
Related words
- antipest
- empest
- impest
- nonpest
- pestful
- pestify
- pestlike
- Pestminster
- pestology
- pestproof
- pesty
- building and pest
Word history
From Latin "pestis".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pest” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.