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English to English noun
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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 |  | source: wordnet30
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any epidemic disease with a high death rate | | source: wordnet30
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a persistently annoying person | | source: wordnet30
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any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. | | Example: he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests
many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides
source: wordnet30
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A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. | | source: webster1913
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