| 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 |
| 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. ] 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. ] The pestilence that walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6. [ 1913 Webster ] I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| 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. ] 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 ] |
| Pestizid { n } | pesticide [Add to Longdo] |