| surgeonfish | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. surgeonfish | brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail. |
| ~ percoid, percoid fish, percoidean | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes. |
| ~ acanthuridae, family acanthuridae | surgeonfishes. |
| ~ acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish, doctorfish | surgeon fish of the West Indies. |
| pest | | |
| n. (state) | 1. pest, pestilence, pestis, plague | 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. |
| ~ epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. |
| ~ bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica | the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person. |
| ~ plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever. |
| ~ septicemic plague | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person. |
| n. (state) | 2. pest, pestilence, plague | any epidemic disease with a high death rate. |
| ~ epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. |
| n. (person) | 3. blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer | a persistently annoying person. |
| ~ nudnick, nudnik | (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest. |
| ~ persecutor, tormenter, tormentor | someone who torments. |
| n. (animal) | 4. pest | any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc..; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ vermin | any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats.; "cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin"; "he examined the child's head for vermin"; "boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin" |
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