pest
- IPA[pest]
美式
- a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc.;an annoying person or thing; a nuisance
noun: pest, plural noun: pests
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名詞
- 1. a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc. the tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly an effective method for controlling insect pests
- 2. informal an annoying person or thing; a nuisance he was a real pest
- 3. archaic bubonic plague.
- Newcastle disease or fowl plague.
Oxford Dictionary
- a person whose job is to eradicate vermin or other pests from a building or area; an exterminator: the bar was closed while pest controllers dealt with the rats
Oxford American Dictionary
- a person whose job is to eradicate pests from a building or area: the bar was closed while pest controllers dealt with the rats
Oxford Dictionary
- a person who sexually harasses or assaults another person: a drunken sex pest who subjected two women to a torrent of abuse
Oxford Dictionary
- a person who sexually harasses or assaults another person: a drunken sex pest who subjected two women to a torrent of abuse
Oxford American Dictionary
- either of two similar viral diseases of poultry, Newcastle disease or fowl plague.
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[pɛst]
英式
- a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc.: the tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly an effective method for controlling insect pests
Oxford Dictionary