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pesticide(n) a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
pesticide poisoning(n) toxic condition resulting from ingesting or inhaling a pesticide
pestilence(n) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of, Syn. canker, Example: racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation; according to him, I was the canker in their midst
pestilent(adj) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; - Jonathan Swift, Syn. pestiferous, plaguey, pestilential, Example: a pestilential malignancy in the air; plaguey fevers

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Pestiduct

n. [ L. pestis pest + ductus a leading, fr. ducere to lead. ] That which conveys contagion or infection. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestiferous

a. [ L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestifère. ] 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. “Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.” Evelyn. “Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestiferously

adv. In a pestiferous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilence

n. [ F. pestilence, L. pestilentia. See Pestilent. ] 1. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pestilence that walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]


Pestilence weed (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot (Petasites vulgaris), so called because formerly considered a remedy for the plague. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilent

a. [ L. pestilens, -entis, fr. pestis pest: cf. F. pestilent. ] Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. “Corrupt and pestilent.” Milton. “What a pestilent knave is this same!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilential

a. [ Cf. F. pestilentiel. ] 1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. “Sends the pestilential vapors.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilentially

adv. Pestilently. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilentious

a. Pestilential. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilently

adv. In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively. “Above all measure pestilently noisome.” Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pestilentness

n. The quality of being pestilent. [ 1913 Webster ]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary
Pestizid { n }pesticide [Add to Longdo]

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